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Issue 11 w/ Rhian elizabeth

For most poets the road to a first collection is long and winding – and when they eventually arrive at the point of publication, the poems included in their manuscript have usually been written and redrafted over a significant period of time. It’s not uncommon to read interviews with debut poets where they’ll reveal that the oldest poem in their collection is 5, 10 or even 15 years old. It’s not that these poets didn’t have enough content to fill a whole book at earlier points in their fledgling writing career, but that their body of work had elements that were perhaps still underdeveloped – not yet ready for public consumption. However, the existence of a general rule is so often proved by the presence of an exception. Rhian Elizabeth, our Issue 11 guest, is that exception.

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