Parts of the Main

Jane Williams's 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 d'tre. - 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