Selima Hill's twenty-second collection A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus presents ten sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals and the world at large:
Self-portrait with a Bucket: On being an artist's model.
The Mathematician: A man and woman trying to agree.
A Man, a Woman & a Chihuahua: Different people's senses of bafflement with each other.
Baby Peter: A homeless man and his mother.
Agatha: An afternoon in a care home.
Room 17: A 70-year-old woman, baffled but determined.
Men in Shorts and Bonkers: Out walking with dogs and their humans.
Until the Tears Roll Down My Cheeks like Honey: Two strangers in a field.
The Surly Mothers of Successful Men: Short pieces of memoir.
| ISBN: | 9781780377520 |
| Publication date: | 23rd October 2025 |
| Author: | Selima Hill |
| Publisher: | Bloodaxe Books an imprint of Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Selima Hill's twenty-second collection A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus presents ten sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals and the world at large:
Self-portrait with a Bucket: On being an artist's model.
The Mathematician: A man and woman trying to agree.
A Man, a Woman & a Chihuahua: Different people's senses of bafflement with each other.
Baby Peter: A homeless man and his mother.
Agatha: An afternoon in a care home.
Room 17: A 70-year-old woman, baffled but determined.
Men in Shorts and Bonkers: Out walking with dogs and their humans.
Until the Tears Roll Down My Cheeks like Honey: Two strangers in a field.
The Surly Mothers of Successful Men: Short pieces of memoir.
A Man, a Woman & A Hippopotamus features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
A Man, a Woman & A Hippopotamus is available in Paperback
A Man, a Woman & A Hippopotamus was written by Selima Hill and published by Bloodaxe Books an imprint of Bloodaxe Books Ltd
A Man, a Woman & A Hippopotamus has 272 pages
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