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Charly Cox

@charlycox1

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Poet. Author. Artist. Clotheshorse.
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Sexy new PAPERBACK, is it? New poems on my hellfire last year, IS IT? Unbelievably beautiful cover art by my sister in arms @evangeline.armstrong ? Yes, yes it is.

There will come a time where everything falls apart around you and somehow you are still there.
Nobody asked for this, did they?

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.

Thank you so much to my gorgeous agent @abigailbergstrom (a decade and 4 books strong...) and editor @marleighmoo who has saved my faith in publishing and beyond and of course to the whole gang at HQ and Harper Collins. Let's do this!

Pre order right NOW. by @charlycox1

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a year ago

Making this very easy for everybody, including myself.

If you’d like to work together, commission something, have me speak/read/write/make something, or have an idea that doesn’t quite fit neatly into any of the above:

charlycox@live.co.uk

Please send money and interesting propositions. x by @charlycox1

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19 days ago

A portrait and a poem.
Portrait by @dunjaopalko
Poem from Validate Me, by...Me. by @charlycox1

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4 days ago

Everything tastes like metal and I'm angry at the system. Down to 112.5mg Venlafaxine from 300mg, I am a prisoner with a fistful of chalk marking on the brickwork. I felt a peculiar sense of relief when my doctor told me nonchalantly that coming off Venlafaxine is like coming off Heroin. I'm a liberal gal but I'm glad that's one experience I can assimilate through this and not trial. My brain fog is doing a three hourly dance where it lifts for just enough time for me to have an idea and leave me with zero energy to execute it. Our house is littered with half started projects and Zopiclone. I'm angry that I'm hooked on this thing that I don't understand, that I was prescribed with no warning, that has a list of side effects so inhumane it's beyond bizarre that it's legal. And yet it's the drug that saved me five years ago, three years ago, 8 months ago. Until it turned on me and now we have to do this ugly dramatic breakup where we can't agree who gets custody of my remaining Braincell. Hanging on in there, but lord is it lonely being too sick to really do anything at all but bang on about it. The party I'm dreaming of when this thing is done will blow Gatsby to hell. by @charlycox1

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9 days ago

My fave lewks from #LFW of yesteryear starting with this banger of a @paulandjoeparis dress and my beloved @louisvuitton Alma bag that I beg stole and spent weeks on the internet to track down

With darling @jaimewinstone 💘 wearing full vintage @dior

I think this was my great grandmothers shirt and a hastily made hairgrip courtesy of panic and felt tips

Wipe clean in @stinegoyastudio and an @isladegar bag

I have zero deets for this but I felt like Parisian big bird

And obviously gotta give this some more space because LOOK AT IT taken in London Fashion Week by @charlycox1

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11 days ago

Unlearning the spiky and embarrassing truth that sometimes being in a state of Crisis feels more comfortable to me than not. Living with a mental illness involves an exhausting daily cycle of masking, self regulating and often feeling incredibly lonely. What I know now is, crisis is my brain and body screaming that it can't do it alone and it needs community. It's saying 'We're worth so much more than pretending to others we're doing fine and deserve the love and support that feels terrifying.' #bipolarii taken in White City House by @charlycox1

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12 days ago

Put on a sparkly dress to tell people that being successful means nothing if it's costing you your health. When I have been at the peaks of success in my career I have almost always been my most miserable. It's taken years of unlearning the false narrative that to thrive is also to suffer. Thank you @sohohouse and @stress.sucks for a beauty of an evening ❤️ @cannelle_nutrition , @rosiejunderwood & @kyliegriffiths I only want to be wherever you are. And @lauradoggett I love u more than I have words. taken in White City House by @charlycox1

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13 days ago

From 300mg of Venlafaxine down to 150mg in 3 weeks. It certainly doesn't look or feel sexy but I am at the very least half way there/very much living on a prayer and half a protein bar. I would like to thank, in no particular order, @bravoandy for the new seasons of RHONY, RHOC, RHOSLC, and Below Deck. Dr Carter, who despite his best efforts, has started to engage with my humour throughout our weekly phone-calls. Antihistamines, paracetamol, valium, electrolytes, my mum, my pals, and deciding at the beginning of all of this that all I had to do every day was make one scrappy piece of art to document the hellscape that is withdrawal. I would also like to thank the good people of Reddit who've made me feel both less insane and like the light at the end of the tunnel is a freight train. Lastly, me. I'm a big brave strong girl who deserves a big gold star and a very specific 2009 Gucci Handbag after I've kicked this thing for good. by @charlycox1

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I've always joked I have too many male friends to have bridesmaids. Sat at dinner with @bettybachz and @charlihoward and @charlie_craggs (yes, I'm a lucky B), we all told similar disappointing tales of bad dates and failed romance. On my way there I'd started to write this poem and Betty let me read it to her. We fizzed at how funny and absurd the day, if and when, it finally arrives would be. But most of all how ludicrous it was that women as smart and funny and beautiful could be arsed with such a worry. A poem! Enjoy. by @charlycox1

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17 days ago

Might not be able to produce serotonin or do anything of use but can put some damn devil in the detail by @charlycox1

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20 days ago

Help me title this poem that scholars would argue is just thoughts on my phone notes which it is but it's also a poem because I'm a poet and they can go suck it x by @charlycox1

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22 days ago

Welcome to your new weekly edition of VENLAFAX-ZINE where instead of writing a medically useful list of symptoms I'm experiencing as I taper from 300mg Venlafaxine down to 0, I make bits of art instead! As the artistic martyr I have devoted my life to be, this should be a very obvious progression to all. I was going to tally off the days like ye olde prisoner with chalk on a wall but have found filling a sheet of A5 to be more helpful. I very much need every thought and prayer you own right now because it's an utter hellscape. Any advice, experience, general words of encouragement greatly and graciously received. Ciao until next week's collage dump x by @charlycox1

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