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
Wendy Battin Wendy Battin Wendy Battin (May 27, 1953 - December 21, 2015) was an American poet. Wendy Battin was born in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from Cornell University and the University of Washington. She taught at MIT, Smith College, Syracuse University, Boston University, Connecticut College. Her work has appeared in "Field", "Georgia Review", "Gettysburg Review", "Poetry", "The Nation", "Mississippi Review", "Threepenny Review", and "Yale Review". She was the director of CAPA, the Contemporary American Poetry Archive. She taught yoga, and lived in Mystic, Connecticut. ...she fills her book with the intensity of a religious quest. Little Apocalypse is full of daring,