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 Xu the syntax of her poetry. Wendy Xu was awarded the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry in 2011, Ottoline Prize and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship in 2014. She has also appeared in: Wendy Xu Wendy Xu (born 1987) is a Chinese American Poet. Xu was born in Shandong China in 1987 but was raised in the United States in Iowa and New York. She earned her BA at the University of Iowa and finished her graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Xu has published several collections including "You Are Not Dead" (2013), "Phrasis" (2017), "The Hero Poems" (2011), and