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Selima Hill

A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus

Publication Date: 23 Oct 2025

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The King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2022 Selima Hill’s twenty-second book of poetry 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...

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Menna Elfyn

Parch

Publication Date: 23 Oct 2025

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Kit Wright

Jug Band Jag

Publication Date: 23 Oct 2025

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Gillian Allnutt

lode

Publication Date: 22 May 2025

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Vidyan Ravinthiran

Avidya

Publication Date: 24 Apr 2025

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Neil Astley

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Rachael Boast

Niall Campbell

Gillian Allnutt

Vidyan Ravinthiran

Katrina Porteous

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