Tulse Hill not otherwise found growing in London. Samson Young, protagonist in Martin Amis's "London Fields" goes to Tulse Hill to buy drugs. Jason Strugnell, a fictional poet in Wendy Cope's "Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis", lives in Tulse Hill and mentions it a couple of times in "his" poems. The "Tulse Hill Parliament", a political club, features in P. G. Wodehouse's comic novel "Psmith in the City". The author attended Dulwich College, which is in the vicinity. Noel Streatfeild's novel ""Tennis Shoes"" (1937) is written about a family who live in Tulse Hill. Tulse Hill and its surrounding areas are locations
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