M Renae Dubois Art And Poetry
M Renae Dubois is a philosopher who uses poetry as her medium, from Brisbane, Australia. Her poetry is strongly influenced by a head injury she experienced at the age of 16. Renae's early work centres around these chosen and positive experiences in the sex industry, which she engaged in intermittently for over 30 years. However, the work does not all derive from these rendezvous, and Renae encounters other issues in her work, treating all with their appropriate gravity. The early poetry, as exampled in the first 3 of her books, and its brand new composite, includes work on the search for identity, an independence from traditional and diagnostic structures, as well as other institutionalised thinking. Lately, Renae is working on less personal subject matter. Renae remains defiantly unapologetic, and a work in progress. Recently, she has returned to an earlier interest in painting, and prefers acrylic portraiture. The latest book, Curses of Verses: A Composite, is somewhat of Renae's Opus, with material before conscious understanding, through to insight and perception Renae feels privileged to have been afforded.
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(Some, not all, of my 'advertising' copy has been written or helped along by AI you may have noticed. I can assure you that I absolutely do not use AI to create, edit or guide any of my poetry or anything else that has gone in my book. I absolutely loathe the idea.)
Motherfucking Me
My boyfriend has a problem with the things I do to earn
I do not listen to him anyway, cos I have cash to burn
He doesn't make as much or nearly half of what I do
And he bitches about the pain he’s in, to his misogynistic crew
The pain he's ins debatable cos I treat him fucking well
The things I do for him and his are all a fucking tell
They speak the truth of how kind I am, and the things that matter most
Cos I give him so much better than the guys I fucking host
He can keep his bellyaching for his therapist and leave
The business of making money to motherfucking me.
2023 M Renae Dubois
The Sun-Smart Collection
She left hospital at sixteen and started writing
A raw, percussive document of a young woman's life in the aftermath of traumatic brain injury - the sex industry, the psychiatric system, the legal machinery that claimed to protect her. Written in real time, from the inside. Nothing quite like it exists in Australian literature.
Comfort X Design
This is where the poet learns she is one
The second volume finds a sharper eye and a steadier hand. Love arrives in unexpected form. So does grief. So does the slow, hard work of becoming yourself deliberately, rather than accidentally. Formally richer, emotionally deeper... and building toward something.
Transport In Style
To be coy and candid simultaneously, that is the whole problem
The culmination of the trilogy. Philosophical, musical, structurally bold. A woman in full possession of her voice, her history, and her art. The book that earns everything the first two were reaching for.
Crosschairs
by M Renae Dubois
After thirty years looking inward, the gaze turns outward
Politics, power, violence, desire - and the woman who survived enough to see all of it clearly. Formally adventurous, sometimes funny, occasionally devastating. The beginning of something quite new.