Author: Hill, Selima

Poetry by individual poets

Published on 23 October 2025 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 272 pages
138 x 215 x 20 | 418g

Selima Hills 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 artists model.

The Mathematician: A man and woman trying to agree.

A Man, a Woman & a Chihuahua: Different peoples 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.