Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus

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  • Published 20190806
  • ISBN: 9781925773798
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

He had four hippos in his private zoo

and would visit them each dawn in his silk kimono

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Philip Neilsen

Philip Neilsen is the author of six collections of poetry. In 2018 he published Wildlife of Berlin (UWAP), which was shortlisted for the NSW...

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