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 Monk feature articles for "The Times" between 1967 and 1977 Wendy Monk Wendy Elizabeth Monk (19 July 1915 – 4 January 2000), wife of theatre critic J. C. Trewin (1908–1990), whom she married on 4 October 1938. They were "an inseparable couple, whose shared interests also bore fruit in literary collaboration, they had two sons": Ion and Mark Antony. Since 2000, an award has been given by the Critics' Circle for the best Shakespearian performance of the Year: "The John And Wendy Trewin Award For Best Shakespearian Performance". Wendy Monk wrote and published a biography of her great-grandfather, John Gill, a