A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus
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A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Self-Portrait With A Bucket
  6. The Mathematician
  7. A Man, A Woman And A Chihuahua
  8. Baby Peter
  9. Agatha
  10. Room 17
  11. Men In Shorts
  12. Bonkers
  13. Until The Tears Roll Down My Cheeks Like Honey
  14. The Surly Mothers Of Successful Men
  15. Notes & Acknowledgements