A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus
A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus
Description
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.
Details
9781780377520
Paperback
Height: 138 mm
Width: 215 mm
