Linda Adair

Linda Adair is a poet, writer, publisher and a co-editor of Rochford Street Review an online journal. Her first chapbook is being published later this year by Melbourne Poets Union and my work has been included in the Puncher & Wattman anthology To End All Wars, the magazines Social Alternatives, & P76, online journals such as Bluepepper, Meusse, as well as being part of Project 366.

Preserved in Amber

Fossilised resin crystals from forgotten forests encircle collar bones toffee-like & organic amber conjures a timeless world before flowers insects immortalised inside sweet sunlit orbs beyond history Now so-called amber notes lay the basis for modern perfumes product of our imagination

Bitter orange @ 2 am

The halfmoon cruelly glowers a chiascuro profile in the smist (cool air dulled by heavy smoke) that wafts upslope from the campfires of misguided tourists travelling to the 6th extinction while notifications ping phones across the sleepless valley.

The Curatorial Years

With less ahead than behind she begins to select what will fill this old house past her tenure & what will be left behind for clearance, burning or salvage precise distillation of spirit in the cauldron of words better to prepare