Parts of the Main

Jane Williamss Parts of the Main is her chemistry abuzz in a murmuration of organic electrons that at once forms memory then problems of translation - not solely of words but in comprehending our modernity. These shape-shifting poems are an assignation of author to grace - with it with her we travel to Europe her youth to longings of elsewhere and an ever developing raison dêtre. - Kent MacCarterJane Williams is a poet who leans out of the frame who turns your ear if not your head. In Parts of the Main we are caught - sometimes caught out -by her days of blue and banter eyeball spoils of war trees falling like the bones of oracles. She writes the tender the vulnerable the unshowable. Sometimes there is a touch of the brogue. Jane Williams answers the question Will poetry be enough? Convincingly. - Lizz Murphy