M Renae Dubois Art And Poetry
M Renae Dubois is a poet from Brisbane, Australla. A head injury experienced at 16 began her journey, an event she continues to call a personality change, although she is aware of the actual diagnositc facts. Renae, and all of us, are fortunate to have this set of experiences documented in poetry. A culmination in a 3 biographies, or the 3-part biography (Curses of Verses: A Composite) spanning over 3 decades since the rupturing event.
Renae's early work often delves into discussion of her first successful employment experiences, which were chosen, positive, and almost certainly privileged experiences in the sex industry, which she did steadily and yet sporadically for over 30 years. However, Renae is more than this aspect, and not all her work derives from these rendezvous.
Renae is exploring potential of writing more pointedly of her philosophical journey, as well as other poetic genres, including fiction. 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, and other institutionalised thinking.
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 Renae's Opus, for now, with material before conscious understanding, through to insight and perception that Renae feels privileged to have been afforded.
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Curses of Verses: A Composite is a collection of M Renae Dubois' first three biographical verse-novels which documented the first thirty-five years of her adult life after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) at 16. The head injury radically altered her personality and direction. What followed was seemingly logical at the time: sex work, addiction, love, of course. But then there were the psychiatric wards, and more, Renae keeps a quick mind and a quiet wit, despite her unrelenting self-examination, and she has documented it all through unabashed poetry. This work is philosophy in verse, through the Crucible, not the Conservatorium.
Detonate
Red it spilled the secrets
Blue it washes clean
Yellow tells the future
Fertile like the green
Purple hides the memories
Black invites the folk
Pink is but a fallacy
Brown is more that’s woke
The colours in the images
Of the world in which we live
Can detonate much more vividly
Can guide us how we think
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2026 M Renae Dubois
The Sun-Smart Collection
I left hospital at sixteen and started writing soon after
This is my first and most raw, and percussive documentation of my life as a young woman in the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury. My experiences included working in the sex industry, battles with the psychiatric system, and legal machinery that claimed to protect. Written in real time, from the inside. I like to think nothing quite like it exists in Australian literature.
Comfort X Design
A document of a commitment to the craft, and inner journey
The second volume begins my education. 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.
