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) 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 was born on 9 July 1664, the third son of Jonathan Cope of Ranton Abbey and his wife Anne Farmer, daughter of Sir Halton Farmer of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. He was the grandson of Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet, of Hanwell, Oxfordshire. His father died in 1670 and in 1675 he succeeded to the family estates on the death of his brother. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1681. He married Susannah Fowle,