A Man a Woman & a Hippopotamus

<p><b>Selima Hill’s twenty-second collection <i>A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus</i> presents ten sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals and the world at large. </b></p><p></p><p>Self-portrait with a Bucket: On being an artist’s model. </p><p><i>The Mathematician</i>: A man and woman trying to agree. </p><p><i>A Man, a Woman & a Chihuahua</i>: Different people’s senses of bafflement with each other. </p><p><i>Baby Peter</i>: A homeless man and his mother. </p><p><i>Agatha</i>: An afternoon in a care home. </p><p><i>Room 17</i>: A 70-year-old woman, baffled but determined. </p><p><i>Men in Shorts and Bonkers</i>: Out walking with dogs and their humans. </p><p><i>Until the Tears Roll Down My Cheeks like Honey</i>: Two strangers in a field. </p><p><i>The Surly Mothers of Successful Men</i>: Short pieces of memoir.</p><p></p>