A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus by Selima Hill J H Prynne following Liffey Swim (2014) and

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

“doorstep birdsong” and pricked fingertips

children's writer

With an unflinching yet generous eye

‘Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the imagination

A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus by Selima Hill J H Prynne following Liffey Swim (2014) andPublished 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