Bodily Fluids by Len Lukowski

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. 

Praise for Bodily Fluids:

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

Paperback | 65 pages