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A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus
About this book
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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Yes, you can access A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus by Selima Hill in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & European Poetry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Self-Portrait With A Bucket
- The Mathematician
- A Man, A Woman And A Chihuahua
- Baby Peter
- Agatha
- Room 17
- Men In Shorts
- Bonkers
- Until The Tears Roll Down My Cheeks Like Honey
- The Surly Mothers Of Successful Men
- Notes & Acknowledgements