A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus by Selima Hill J H Prynne With an unflinching yet generous

With an unflinching yet generous eye

“doorstep birdsong” and pricked fingertips

Jay Bernard’s powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive

following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Dedalus and Pit Lullabies (2022) from Bloodaxe

children's writer

A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus by Selima Hill J H Prynne With an unflinching yet generousPublished 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