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
Poet in the City trustees chaired by Sarah Davis. Its Chief Executive is Isobel Colchester who has been in post since April 2014, succeeding Graham Henderson who led the organisation from July 2003 to March 2014. The organisation is supported by a panel of corporate organisations that provide in-kind support and ad-hoc sponsorship and it operates a Friends’ scheme whereby individuals can support its work. Poet in the City has five patrons, the human rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, the poets Andrew Motion, Wendy Cope and Jo Shapcott, and the actress Juliet Stevenson. Poet in the City has a thriving volunteer community with