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Pam Makin (she/her)
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Writer, poet, storyteller living and working on unceded Kaurna Yerta, Adelaide, South Australia.
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This is where I spend my Mondays. The Gallery currently occupies the front room, foyerish area of the local museum while a major redevelopment happens at its usual site.

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November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Back to the Future was groundbreaking in its day. Now, forty years on, it is simply a joy. Add a live score played by the wonderful ASO and you have a great night out.

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November 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I attended some of the sessions at this past weekend’s Weekend of Words, part of the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide. I love that these smaller writers festivals exist beyond the major ones. I will seek it out again next year.

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November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I am currently annoyed at folks who think they’re too good for an open mic crowd. I love an open mic. And I love the vast variety of talent that comes out to share. Spoke n Slurred is one I regularly attend. Come along if you’re in the area. If you’re not, find an open mic near you.

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November 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The current Barossa Women’s Artist in Residence is Rae Howell. Look her up and see what she’s doing. You won’t be disappointed.

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November 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Adelaide is full of things I love. This is one of them. Monthly at The Jade

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October 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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It was more than a week ago. But it is still worth posting about. Go see an old movie on a big screen. It’s delightful.

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October 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Today Adelaide, Tomorrow The World! is a new poetry competition from Ellipsis Poetry and Page & Turner. The theme is Metamorphosis, entries are free and open until the 23rd of January. For more information, use the QR code. Hit me up with any questions you might have.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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As part of Nature Festival, Adelaide Botanic Gardens is currently harbouring this delightful hidden gem.

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October 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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The wonderful Australian String Quartet has turned 40. They spent Sunday celebrating in Adelaide. Here’s a review:

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September 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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New writers festivals seem to be popping up all over the calendar. This past weekend, there was one at the State Library facilitated by Flinders Uni. Here’s a short review.

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September 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Adelaide is a UNESCO City of Music. We have a world class orchestra in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and we are home to the Australian String Quartet. We have many other musical claims. What we don’t have is a purpose built concert hall. That doesn’t stop us!

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September 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Wild flight paints desire lines across the sky / where last night, blind, the billionaires’ rockets raved. / The rage, the curse, now blessed in the gentle drift of sunrise.

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day31
September 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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In that moment, there is something like pride, that isn’t pride, / love that isn’t love alone, surprise that is genuinely surprising, / There is no word for that feeling when they say, “you saved my life.”

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day30
August 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Prepare yourself for another day. Meditate. Medicate. / Check the progress of the apocalypse. Fortify. Call Mum. / Dress for success. Choose a playlist. Breathe.

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day29
August 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Stoke the flames with remembrance / fan it by speaking honourably / fuel it with stories of your own

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day28
August 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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On escalators, as in ideologies, stand to the left / Wear the clothes that make you comfortable; wear pants for the comfort of others / Whatever the game, and whatever the rules, always play nice.

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day27
August 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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a last leap of faithlessness, all as one, as won by all, / we turn to you, the remains of you, to discover your / music holds your life, but your death is in your eyes.

(Final three lines of “at the centre of it all, your eyes” a tribute to Blackstar by David Bowie, 2016)

#RedRoom #30in30 #Day25
August 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Writing one’s own eulogy is an exercise of the ego. / I should expound upon my many virtues, my gifts, my legacy, / but all I want to say in the end is thanks for everything.

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day24
August 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Sunset burns into the bight / reflects sparks from clifftop binoculars. / The whales are back, trusting the ocean.

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day24
August 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Anything to keep the peace, she always said / now that circumstance has shattered tranquillity / there is no excuse for silence, she shouts

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day23
August 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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5. Everyone has a sippy cup, cardboard or plastic. Some seem made for desert crossings.
17. My noodles are not al dente and I consider this might be a universal problem with soup. Or maybe it’s my food flask.
29. A duck swims in the fountain. There is nothing there to eat. It just swims.

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August 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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In this modern city of churches, whom do we now praise? / The singer for whom the lane is named, or the pilgrim poet streaming Angels through headphones? / The homeless man on the cold slate steps, or the God who looks away?

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day21
August 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Watching tv, a war time drama, I thought you were asleep. / You said “I had a dress just like that.” Suddenly, there you were, / young and living in a world that I can never know, wearing that dress.

#PoetryMonth #RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #PoetryCompetition #DailyPoem #Day20
August 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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It is unlikely you’d be an evil queen, stepmother to a fairytale princess / it is more likely that you are the exhausted, possibly single, mother of a fussy eater / either way it is important to select the most gloriously perfect apple in the store

#RedRoomPoetry #30in30 #DailyPoem #Day19
August 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM