#141 Charly Cox: On Poetry, Success and Mental Health

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Charly Cox is a 22-year-old writer, producer, poet and author of She Must Be Mad.

Her writing focuses on destigmatizing 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. She Must Be Mad is Charly’s first book.

She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body.

We discuss writing, success, mental health, how as a poet, people might worry they are "fodder" for your work, the insanity of being alone for long periods of time when writing, crying for two weeks over book covers and the importance of the phrase "I have a mental illness but I have really good mental health".

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0:57.8	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Or Delete with me and McGannen talking to interesting creatives about the internet and
1:06.1	social media and their work. So today's guest is Charlie Cox. I've known Charlie for a few years. I've followed her work for a long time and I'm
1:16.4	really excited because her debut poetry book called She Must Be, is out now.
1:22.8	And full disclaimer, we have the same literary agent, but I would have been supporting this book anyway.
1:30.1	Charlie is a 22 year old writer, producer and now poet.
1:34.8	Her writing focuses on de-stigmatizing mental health
1:38.3	and the book is incredible.
1:40.0	It's a coming of age book about a young woman surviving the modern world through a series of incredible poems.
1:47.0	It's a brilliant story how Charlie came to publish this book.
1:51.0	She started publishing her poetry on Instagram in January 2017 and sharing these poems
1:58.7	for the very first time with her followers and since then it's really grown and I think it just shows the power of
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