M Renae Dubois Art And Poetry
Hello, Bonjour!
Yes, I write poetry. I write because I am compelled. I love language, and I love the kaleidoscope of truths. In my poetic work, my life, my philosophy, my desires, my distastes, and even at times, my regrets, are laid bare. There is a familiarity offered to the reader, and also a palpable sense of honesty and bravery, or perhaps at times, bravado.
With my intellectual vigour, the poetry is a dialectical conversation. I am untrained, un- officially educated. I have put my first three biographies into one book – Curses of Verses: A Composite, as evidence of the arc of my psychological, artistic and philosophical development, and for the pleasure of the read! Most recently, I have released An Encounter, a journey of discovery and recognition in the areas of Existentialism and surrounding theoretical frameworks. This book, too, is poetic in style. A philosophical memoir.
My education is unofficial, formed in the Crucible not the Conservatorium.
This poetry collection is M Renae Dubois' fourth, and comes from a place beyond her previous honest selfreflections and perceptions. Here, the shackels of narrative biography are again loosened, (similarly to Coy Candour, Renae’s most recent book) and Renae goes even further than previous insights, presenting her new insights surrounding human frailty and strengths, in her own familiar bold and philosophical manner.
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 selfexamination, and she has documented it all through unabashed poetry. This work is philosophy in verse, through the Crucible, not the Conservatorium.
A poetic endeavour of discovery, discussion, and occasional disagreement with the proponents and parties in the areas of existentialism, absurdism, and phenomenology. A fresh perspective by a formerly unknowing practitioner, and author of Curses of Verses: A Composite.
Theres a version of Him up there
A depiction of a form
Of both temperament and context
In what clothes shall He be worn
The image is indicative
Of the sculptors graceful hand
The love he has for subject
The God in form of man
All the beauty he can sum up
His perception he adores
This creature of Creator
Creators creature making more
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.
