Bodily Fluids by Len Lukowski

Join us for the Edinburgh launch of Bodily Fluids by Len Lukowski, with guest readings from Anna Walsh and Rosa Campbell.

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.

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

Len Lukowski writes poetry, fiction and memoir. He's had writing in 14 Poems, Extra Teeth and Fierce Salvage. 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 by Broken Sleep Books and Bodily Fluids is his first collection.

Anna Walsh is an Irish writer and editor living in Glasgow. Their poetry and prose has been published by The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Extra Teeth and more. Their debut pamphlet Stag Do/Fantasy Horn was published by Ssnake Press in 2025.

Rosa Campbell is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches modern and contemporary literature, specialising in the poetry of women and queer writers. She is the author of Pothos, a lyric essay/memoir about grief and houseplants (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), and the editor of The Miraculous Season: The Selected Poems of V.R. ‘Bunny’ Lang (Carcanet, 2024; US edition forthcoming from NYRB). She is currently working on a critical biography of Lang and a book on the poetics of failure. She lives in Leith.

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