Bodily Fluids: Book Launch with Len Lukowski

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Join us for the launch of Bodily Fluids by Len Lukowski!

Bodily Fluids travels through queer teenage longing in 90s Birmingham, cider-stained bedrooms in 00s Leeds and Glasgow nights reimagined as a David Lynch film. It 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.

'A very strong debut collection which brilliantly carries forward poetry and its queer subjects into places it may never have been before' — 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' — 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.' — Golnoosh Nour

'I was left marvelling a that manages to be so much at once - beautiful, surprising and violently alive' — Hannah Copley

With guest reader Ilisha Thiru Purcell!

About Len:

Len Lukowski is a writer and performer. He's had work in 14 Poems, Extra Teeth and Magma. He's played in the queer punk bands Jean Genet, Faggot and Twinken Park. He is a recipient of the Wasafiri prize for New Writing. His pamphlet 'The Bare Thing' was published in 2022 and 'Bodily Fluids' is his first collection. Originally from Birmingham, Len has lived in Leeds, London and now lives in Glasgow.

About Ilisha:

Ilisha Thiru Purcell is an award-winning Sri Lankan-Scottish poet from Newcastle. Her debut pamphlet What She Said was publishedby Verve Poetry Press and was the 2025 Poetry Book Society Autumn Pamphlet Choice. Ilisha was shortlisted for the James Berry Prize 2024 and was a Poet in Residence at the 2025 StAnza Poetry Festival, winning the Futurist Award. Her work has been widely published and appears in publications such as Bi+ Lines Anthology, Butcher’s Dog, and Under the Radar. @ilishadoespoetry

Date: Thursday 4th December 2025
Time: 7-8pm
Venue: The Bookish Type, 77a Great George Street, LS1 3BR

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