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
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