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.
Author: Selima Hill
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 12/16/2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781780377520
Language: English
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