Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus

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.