Strugnell's Haiku Strugnell's Haiku Strugnell's Haiku is a collection of three songs for voice and piano by the composer Colin Matthews, set to haiku poems by Jason Strugnell, an alter ego of the poet Wendy Cope. The texts cover the angst of living in South London, the abode of the fictional Strugnell, who lived in Tulse Hill and worked at Norwood library, and whose work shows the influence of a number of poets, including Ted Hughes, Craig Raine and James Elroy Flecker. The poems were originally published in Cope's collection "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis." The haiku touch on various experiences in
Jonathan Cope (MP for Stafford) daughter. of Sir Thomas Fowle by a settlement of 19 October 1688. Cope was High Sheriff of Staffordshire for the year 1685 to 1686. At the 1690 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for Stafford and held the seat until his death. Cope died on 14 September 1694, and was buried in Ellenhall church on 22 September. His eldest son John was created a baronet and inherited the Hanwell estates in 1721. Jonathan Cope (MP for Stafford) Jonathan Cope (1664–1694) was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1690 to 1694 Cope