
Nobody Asked For This
Charly Cox(Author)
HQ (Publisher)
Published on 25. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-00-863983-9 (ISBN)
Description
Publishing as a standalone collection for the first time, and featuring new, never-before-published poems
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.
For avid readers of Rupi Kaur, Holly McNish and Nikita Gill, this is the perfect collection to gift with care to all the poetry lovers in your life trying to understand this increasingly complicated and confusing world around us - even if and especially if that poetry lover is you.
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.
For avid readers of Rupi Kaur, Holly McNish and Nikita Gill, this is the perfect collection to gift with care to all the poetry lovers in your life trying to understand this increasingly complicated and confusing world around us - even if and especially if that poetry lover is you.
Reviews / Votes
'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
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
108 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-863983-9 (9780008639839)
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Person
Charly Cox (she/her) is a poet and activist. Her first book, She Must Be Mad, was the bestselling debut collection of 2018 and her second book Validate Me received praise from ELLE, Sunday Times STYLE and Elizabeth Day. Charly is a Forbes 30 under 30, an ambassador for mental health research charity MQ and listed by ELLE Magazine as one of their 'power players' to watch.