A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus by Selima Hill J H Prynne … The troubling idea that

… The troubling idea that the past never disappears

and for the society in which we live

“doorstep birdsong” and pricked fingertips

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A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus by Selima Hill J H Prynne … The troubling idea thatPublished 23rd October 2025. 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