One Woman-Horse Show by Jess Murrain you are mistaken place and time become the

place and time become the “distance between things that stand like sisters”

others creative writing fellows (James Kirkup

making brilliant and original connections

These are poems of resistance: attentive to non-human life

She is most obviously (in this collection at least) a nature poet

One Woman-Horse Show by Jess Murrain you are mistaken place and time become theOne Woman Horse Show is both mythic making and investigative. The poems straddle the liminal and surreal with extraordinary boldness. Murrain contorts language and imagery to explore and document misogyny, queerness, race and identity with an elegiac pathos that is once delightful, engaging and emblematic. Malika Booker Murrains poems work as a series of restless, strange expressions probing an ongoing malaise. In One Woman Horse Show she masterfully