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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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.
The sweat, intoxication
Like treacle on the nose
Less sweet, it is more rancid
Of the body beats and flows
There's a passion that's beneath it
Perspiration and the musk
The woman's bosom and heart heaving
And his mighty organs thrust
Like a perfume thats of danger
Like an incense, its intense
The tension heavy over bodies
Encapsulate nature's expense
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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.
Transport In Style
An honesty and virtuosity
The culmination of the trilogy. Philosophical, musical, structurally bold. I'm a woman in full possession of a voice, my history, and my art. This book earns everything the first two were reaching for.