Nobody Asked For This

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Publishing as a standalone collection for the first time, and featuring new, never-before-published poems

Charly Cox is not at all where she thought she would be, yet to be somewhere at all to have reached thirty is, in itself, miraculous.

In this stunning collection, including new, never-before-published poems, Charly Cox offers up her inimitable voice and perspective on breaking up and breaking down; on growing up and staying alive, and of love in all its different guises.

Intimate, unflinching and profoundly honest, these poems sing with the complicated joy of life, and of continuing to live, despite everything.

Reviews

Honest, relatable, and thought provoking. Stylist magazine

Funny and heartfelt and brilliant. Sunday Times STYLE

Relatable and funny. ELLE

Encapsulates what it is to be a young woman. Pandora Sykes

Divine. Cecelia Ahern

Author Bio

Charly Cox is a writer, producer and poet. Her writing focuses on destigmatising mental health and the coming-of-age of a young woman surviving the modern world. In January 2017, she published her first poem on Instagram, showing her internet followers her poetry for the first time; since then she's been asked to be Virgin Radio's poet in residence, she's been published on Refinery29, hosted poetry nights to raise money and awareness for MQ Mental Health and been named by ELLE magazine as one of their 20 power players to watch out for in 2018.