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A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus

Selima Hill
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: October 23, 2025
ISBN: 9781780377520
272 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£14.00

The King’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 2022

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.

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