One Woman-Horse Show by Jess Murrain you are mistaken but show a drift towards

but show a drift towards greater depths of open emotion

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

and in 2017 she gained second place in the York Literature Poetry Competition

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

One Woman-Horse Show by Jess Murrain you are mistaken but show a drift towardsOne 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