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The Gathering of Bastards
About this book
Winner of the 2023 Julie Suk Award
Winner of the 2024 Nebraska Book Award
Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist for the 2024 Midwest Book Award
Finalist for the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Shortlisted for the 2024 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry
Like I knew, standing
on the seashore, the hunger
wracking a migrant’s body
is movement.
—from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea”
The Gathering of Bastards is Romeo Oriogun’s extended edition of his award-winning Nomad published in Nigeria. This collection chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys that take him across nations in West and North Africa, through Europe, and through American cities as he navigates the challenges of living through terror and loss and wrestles with the meaning of home.
Winner of the 2024 Nebraska Book Award
Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist for the 2024 Midwest Book Award
Finalist for the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Shortlisted for the 2024 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry
Like I knew, standing
on the seashore, the hunger
wracking a migrant’s body
is movement.
—from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea”
The Gathering of Bastards is Romeo Oriogun’s extended edition of his award-winning Nomad published in Nigeria. This collection chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys that take him across nations in West and North Africa, through Europe, and through American cities as he navigates the challenges of living through terror and loss and wrestles with the meaning of home.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. Departure
- It Begins with Love
- Ballet in the Cold
- A Letter from the Village of Trees
- Night Songs
- Cotonou
- The Wild Mystic
- Wishbone
- Ouidah
- Late December in Abidjan
- The World Demands from Us Our Existence
- A Little Cartography of Violence
- Nadoba
- Crossing into Togo
- The Sea Dreams of Us
- Wind Whisperer
- A Village Life
- There Is No End Here
- On the Road to Paradise
- The Abandoned Church Camp
- Welcome
- Migrant by the Sea
- The Drowned
- On Leaving
- At the Bus Park in Bamako
- This Way to Water
- Migrant at the Sahara
- Someday the Desert Will Sing
- Ait-Ben-Haddou
- A Train Stop in the Sahara
- At the Edge of the Desert
- Mist
- The Gallery at the End of Time
- II. Remembrance
- From Darkness into Light
- In the Middle of August, I Saw the Sky
- A Stranger in Aba
- Last Days of General Abacha
- Remembrance
- Under the Mango Tree
- Harmattan
- The River Is by the Door
- Falling Dusk
- At Midnight I Dreamt of Rapture
- Before the Arrival of Rain
- The Gathering of Bastards
- Waiting for Rain
- At Lagos Polo Club
- III. Wanderer
- Assimilation
- Asylee in the Evening of the World
- The Migrant of Padua
- O Blue Waters, O Ships!
- In the Museum of Fine Arts, I Remembered Home
- All Winter I Had No Love
- Walking along Harvard Square
- Flyway
- Atlantic Beach
- On Belonging
- San Juan
- A Man of Good Fortune
- Before Nightfall
- Solstice
- A Phone Call from Exile
- Nomad
- Full Moon
- Isla Verde
- Lamentation
- Offerings
- Ode to Shadows
- Echoes
- The Revolution Is Over
- Returnee
- Salute from the Boston Cold
- About Romeo Oriogun
- Series List