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
William Cope (footballer) season; over the course of the three Football League campaigns he made 114 appearances. Cope joined Third Division North club Wrexham for the 1922–23 season. Making thirteen appearances, he retired at the end of the campaign at the age of 38. Source: William Cope (footballer) William Arthur Cope (25 November 1884 – 18 February 1937) was an English footballer who played as a full-back. He played 287 league games in the Football League over a nineteen-year professional career. He joined Burslem Port Vale in August 1904, and spent three seasons with the club, moving on to Stoke after Port Vale