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Man A Woman & A Hippopotamus

Man A Woman & A Hippopotamus

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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.