Kinder Language for Madder Times with Charly Cox and Flora Gill

Our collective ability to tell stories through words, music, film, and performance is one of the facets of human life that differentiate us from other species. And as we contemplate an often confusing modern world of interconnected challenges, we can’t help but feel that we need poetry, perhaps now more so than ever. There are reasons why in times of crisis and celebration, we put aside our technological appendages and reach instead for songs and writing and poems that capture the human inside of us. The dark, the light, the passionate, the petty, the ugly, the beautiful. The essence of who we are.

In this inspiring and heartfelt event at Second Home, celebrated poet, artist and activist, Charly Cox, will discuss how the power of writing and self reflection can soothe our psyche and help make us kinder, more open humans in a world that needs bigger hearts and better critical thinkers. Asking the questions will be the writer and journalist, Flora Gill.

About Charly Cox

Charly Cox is a poet, artist and activist. Her work centers around gender equality and destigmatizing and advocating for better care and rights for those with mental illness. She has published three poetry collections with Harper Collins, her debut, She Must Be Mad, was a bestseller of 2018 awarded her a place on the covered Forbes 30 under 30 list and ELLE Magazines Power Players. She regularly performs her work to sell out crowds and recently has taken stage at Wilderness Festival, the World Economic Forum, Cannes Lions Festival and The Houses of Parliament. She has collaborated on bespoke commissions for Soho House, Bentley, Rosewood Hotels, ASICS, and Molton Brown to name a few. Charly is currently working on her first novel. Instagram

About Flora Gill

Flora Gill is a writer who has made a name for herself in the world of journalism, with a portfolio of over a hundred published pieces for leading national newspapers and magazines. Her work includes contributions to The Sunday Times, GQ, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times Style Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, You Magazine, Grazia, The Evening Standard, Elle, Air Mail, and The Radio Times. In addition to her work in journalism, Flora is also a screenwriter, with her debut show currently in development with Working Title.