FAQ

Who is M Renae Dubois?

M Renae Dubois is a Brisbane-based poet and writer whose work is anchored in sex work poetry. Having worked as a sole-operating escort out of Brisbane, Queensland, for most of her adult life, M Renae Dubois writes about her experiences with wit and candour. She explicitly rejects a trauma model in favour of a pragmatic approach, in keeping with her cheeky attitude and entrepreneurial spirit. Her sex work poetry runs throughout her biographical work, most notably in Curses of Verses: A Composite and Wreck: A Reckoning.

What is M Renae Dubois' poetry about head injury?

M Renae Dubois has also written poetry about head injury — an enlightening and highly individual expression of the new perceptions that grew clearer after her discharge from hospital. At this time she took on a new philosophical battle, entirely without knowledge of the academic terms that describe it, as a way of restructuring the frameworks of her mind and life. She later came to describe this as an existential awakening, brought on by her frontal lobe brain injury.

What has M Renae Dubois written about philosophy and existentialism?

M Renae Dubois has written poetry about philosophy and existentialism. After discovering — and recognising herself in — the concepts of existentialism, absurdism, and phenomenology at the age of 51, she wrote perhaps her finest work to date: An Encounter: Poetry, Existentialism, a poetry collection and philosophical treatise. The book is in discussion, and sometimes disagreement, with original contributors to these theories, namely Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Søren Kierkegaard.

How would you describe M Renae Dubois as a poet?

M Renae Dubois is an original Queensland poet whose work carries a phonetic, rhythmic, bold, self-aware, and intellectual musicality. She writes honestly about tragic situations with no fear of collapsing into despair; her poetry is instead rationally positive, and self-aware enough to carry an occasional acerbic wit.