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ART.........................Clockwise from top left: Ralph, Self Portrait, Collage, Changes....46....
ART.........................Ruby DineFrank poetryRuby Dine has a hunger for learning new words,which has led to the 21 year old exhibiting acollection of her poetry – alongside collages andpaintings – at Jubilee library this month. I meetRuby and her creative partner, Rachel Norwood,in Rachel’s Brighton home, where I peruse ahardback book titled Volume One, Poems by RubyDine. Ruby’s poems often centre around emotionalresponses to her life: Family, for example, exploreshow she loves the people in her household,‘my tribe’. ‘Jenny is the leader of my family / Shehas the Frida Kahlo power’.Ruby had initially spent her time with Rachelstudying Spanish, but changed paths because she“loves poetry, and loves hearing words”. Rachelexplains how she assists Ruby with her writing:“One day for example, Ruby was writing a poemabout how hot she was. We looked up a big listof synonyms on the iPad, and she chose whichones she liked.”Ruby is a prolific writer, but many of her poemsmight never be released to the public. She explainsthat this is because “some of my poems arereally personal” and that she sometimes doesn’t“talk about personal feelings much” in public.Ruby is keen to share some of her thoughts onmusic, and gardens, however. Music explores Ruby’sreaction to Erik Satie (which makes her ‘feelsad and blue’) and Motorhead (‘head splitting!’and ‘thunderous!’). One of Ruby’s favourite everlines is in Sussex Prairie Gardens: ‘I heard thesprinkler / It sounded like beat boxing’.Ralph, a poem about Ruby’s rescue dog (picturedwith Ruby), is filled with evocative descriptions:‘Ralph is pencil thin / Hollow cheeked / Likea match stick’. When real words and synonymsdon’t suffice, Ruby is happy to make up words,exclaiming that Ralph is ‘puckeracious!’. I likehow frank and full-hearted Ruby’s poetry is: oneof my favourite stanzas is ‘I… %*$!!! hate advice/ I don’t really know why / I think maybe I’mallergic’. Why don’t you like advice, I ask? “It’sjust not my thing.”Ruby has Downs Syndrome, and finds that herpoetry can be useful in “helping my family andfriends listen to what I’m saying”. During the interview,Ruby singles out her poem Furious, whichends with a passionate refusal to be defined by thecondition. ‘I don’t want to be Downs Syndrome/ That’s not who I am // I am a singer / I am adancer / I am a poet / I am a mermaid / I am areally good friend / I am an auntie // I am a divinewoman’. Joe FullerJubilee library, 3rd to 15th Febpoetrybyruby.com, rachellounorwood@gmail.comRuby with her rescue dog, Ralph....47....
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