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Len Lukowski's Bodily Fluids is a charged, unflinching examination of desire, transgression, and the shifting boundaries of selfhood. Moving through sex, memory, digital detritus, and fleeting intimacies, Lukowski crafts poems that are both vulnerable and wry, attuned to the body's betrayals and pleasures. With cinematic clarity and a sharp lyricism, the collection navigates the intersections of queerness, masculinity, and transformation, refusing easy narratives of identity or resolution. Bodily Fluids pulses with restless energy, mapping the residue of encounters, the weight of longing, and the quiet violences of simply existing.

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A very strong debut collection which brilliantly carries forward poetry and its queer subjects into places it may never have been before; a unique and singular new voice. - Andrew McMillan Lukowski's poems sing in this beautiful collection that centres the queer, trans masc body as a site of ecstatic sensation and relation, of yearning and indifference, and of radical hope. Bodily Fluids conveys not only the power of the individual to resist and transcend its context but, too, our collective capacity for resilience and change. In this, we are introduced to an indelible poetic voice. - Peter Scalpello I love these gorgeously detailed poems that are brimming with dark humour and libido. They boldly explore desires that are often left unspoken, silenced, and repressed. The poems are formally and thematically adventurous and shameless. Lukowski's poetry is able to be both playful and serious, simultaneously cool and intense. Lukowski's poetic voice is indeed explorative, transgressive, and visionary. - Golnoosh Nour I read Bodily Fluids in one long intake of breath. These poems take us across grey cityscapes, into clubs, bedrooms, screens and rented flats. Yet with each journey Lukowski's 'I' feels at once intimate, searing and vulnerable. These poems are lyrical bodies in themselves - tightly contained explorations of power, shame, love and selfhood. I was left marvelling at a collection that manages to be so much at once - beautiful, surprising and violently alive. - Hannah Copley

Author Information

Len Lukowski is a writer based in Glasgow. His pamphlet, The Bare Thing was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2022. This is his first full length collection.

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