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’être." – Kent MacCarter

"Jane 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