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The Story
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.
Author: Romeo Oriogun
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 10/01/2023
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9781496234032
About the Author
Romeo Oriogun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and now lives in Iowa. He is the author of Sacrament of Bodies (Nebraska, 2020) and Nomad (Griots Lounge Publishing Nigeria, 2022).
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.
Author: Romeo Oriogun
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 10/01/2023
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9781496234032
About the Author
Romeo Oriogun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and now lives in Iowa. He is the author of Sacrament of Bodies (Nebraska, 2020) and Nomad (Griots Lounge Publishing Nigeria, 2022).
Description
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.
Author: Romeo Oriogun
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 10/01/2023
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9781496234032
About the Author
Romeo Oriogun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and now lives in Iowa. He is the author of Sacrament of Bodies (Nebraska, 2020) and Nomad (Griots Lounge Publishing Nigeria, 2022).
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.
Author: Romeo Oriogun
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 10/01/2023
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9781496234032
About the Author
Romeo Oriogun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and now lives in Iowa. He is the author of Sacrament of Bodies (Nebraska, 2020) and Nomad (Griots Lounge Publishing Nigeria, 2022).
