Marina Diamandis contributed the incredible Electra Heart album to the musical canon, but after five albums she’d never published any poetry.

Until now.

She’s written a book of poems after “writing lyrics that didn’t fit into songs” after psychedelics. Possibly don’t try that at home.

Some of the poems deal with life in LA, relationship issues, but one major subject is her struggle with bulimia before she was signed.

“This chapter in my life was like 15 years ago, so I feel very much moved on, and I’m able to talk about it and not feel any kind of shame or self-consciousness,” she told the BBC.

“I think it’s really important to take that mystery or shame away from it.”

“At the end of the day, it’s like any other mental illness or health issue, and it can be life-threatening, and most of all, for the majority of people, it makes your life a misery.”

“I think with the subject of eating disorders, there’s so much secrecy around the illness itself, like in terms of maintaining it, or being allowed to exist doing what you’re doing without kind of commentary from other people, because it’s obviously such a harmful thing.”

“It was about five years in that I decided I’m not actually ever going to achieve my dream of being a singer and an artist if I continue with this.”

“I actually quit this vocal course that I was doing at the time, when I was around 21 before I got signed, because my throat was so raw I couldn’t sing anymore.”

“And I decided from then I was going to recover, and then I went through the thing of gaining weight and not feeling great about that, but it took a couple of years to even out.”

“A couple of years later, I got signed and my life started to improve, and other things became more important than that.”

Poetry collection Eat the World is out soon.