Wendy Cope things". Three haiku from "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis", where they are presented as being written by the (fictional) Tulse Hill poet Jason Strugnell, were set by the composer Colin Matthews in 1990 as "Strugnell's Haiku". In 2008 Cope's poem "After The Lunch" was used as the lyric of the song "Waterloo Bridge" by jazz composer and musician Jools Holland and singer Louise Marshall. Some of her poems are written in the persona of a struggling male poet, Jason Strugnell, a slightly seedy figure from Tulse Hill. She displays her talent for parody with targets ranging from the sonnets of
Kenneth Cope a female nurse as part of his father's attempt to rob a maternity hospital. Once there Cyril finds love with a real nurse. In 1975–76 he wrote three series of the BBC children's television series "Striker", starring the young Kevin Moreton and inspired by the local youth football team in the village of Islip, Oxfordshire, where the Cope family was then living. Cope later appeared in the "Doctor Who" story "Warriors' Gate" (in 1981), and guest starred in four episodes of "Casualty", as well as taking roles in "The Bill", "Waking the Dead", "A Touch of Frost", "Minder" and "Kavanagh