{"product_id":"the-gathering-of-bastards-paperback-softback-9781496234032","title":"The Gathering of Bastards (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496234032","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Gathering of Bastards\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRomeo Oriogun (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496234032\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e144 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.224 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“‘I walk alone, trying to find \/ the whisper of roads, trying to sieve through water \/ the haunting’ writes Romeo Oriogun in the book that is a journey, both through place and history, yes, but also the soul. To say that \u003ci\u003eThe Gathering of Bastards\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive collection is an understatement. It is one of soul-making indeed. Here ‘rain bears witness to bodies \/ thrown overboard slave ships,’ and the spell of verbal music bears wisdom. Oriogun is a kind of writer whose music will never stop. The kind that will survive the test of time. Bravo.”-Ilya Kaminsky, author of \u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Julie Suk Award\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2024 Nebraska Book Award\u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award \u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2024 Midwest Book Award\u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for the 2024 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like I knew, standing\u003cbr\u003e on the seashore, the hunger\u003cbr\u003e wracking a migrant’s body\u003cbr\u003e is movement.\u003cbr\u003e -from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gathering of Bastards\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e I. Departure\u003cbr\u003e It Begins with Love\u003cbr\u003e Ballet in the Cold\u003cbr\u003e A Letter from the Village of Trees\u003cbr\u003e Night Songs\u003cbr\u003e Cotonou\u003cbr\u003e The Wild Mystic\u003cbr\u003e Wishbone\u003cbr\u003e Ouidah\u003cbr\u003e Late December in Abidjan\u003cbr\u003e The World Demands from Us Our Existence\u003cbr\u003e A Little Cartography of Violence\u003cbr\u003e Nadoba\u003cbr\u003e Crossing into Togo\u003cbr\u003e The Sea Dreams of Us\u003cbr\u003e Wind Whisperer\u003cbr\u003e A Village Life\u003cbr\u003e There Is No End Here\u003cbr\u003e On the Road to Paradise\u003cbr\u003e The Abandoned Church Camp\u003cbr\u003e Welcome\u003cbr\u003e Migrant by the Sea\u003cbr\u003e The Drowned\u003cbr\u003e On Leaving\u003cbr\u003e At the Bus Park in Bamako\u003cbr\u003e This Way to Water\u003cbr\u003e Migrant at the Sahara\u003cbr\u003e Someday the Desert Will Sing\u003cbr\u003e Ait-Ben-Haddou\u003cbr\u003e A Train Stop in the Sahara\u003cbr\u003e At the Edge of the Desert\u003cbr\u003e Mist\u003cbr\u003e The Gallery at the End of Time\u003cbr\u003e II. Remembrance\u003cbr\u003e From Darkness into Light\u003cbr\u003e In the Middle of August, I Saw the Sky\u003cbr\u003e A Stranger in Aba\u003cbr\u003e Last Days of General Abacha\u003cbr\u003e Remembrance\u003cbr\u003e Under the Mango Tree\u003cbr\u003e Harmattan\u003cbr\u003e The River Is by the Door\u003cbr\u003e Falling Dusk\u003cbr\u003e At Midnight I Dreamt of Rapture\u003cbr\u003e Before the Arrival of Rain\u003cbr\u003e The Gathering of Bastards\u003cbr\u003e Waiting for Rain\u003cbr\u003e At Lagos Polo Club\u003cbr\u003e III. Wanderer\u003cbr\u003e Assimilation\u003cbr\u003e Asylee in the Evening of the World\u003cbr\u003e The Migrant of Padua\u003cbr\u003e O Blue Waters, O Ships!\u003cbr\u003e In the Museum of Fine Arts, I Remembered Home\u003cbr\u003e All Winter I Had No Love\u003cbr\u003e Walking along Harvard Square\u003cbr\u003e Flyway\u003cbr\u003e Atlantic Beach\u003cbr\u003e On Belonging\u003cbr\u003e San Juan\u003cbr\u003e A Man of Good Fortune\u003cbr\u003e Before Nightfall\u003cbr\u003e Solstice\u003cbr\u003e A Phone Call from Exile\u003cbr\u003e Nomad\u003cbr\u003e Full Moon\u003cbr\u003e Isla Verde\u003cbr\u003e Lamentation\u003cbr\u003e Offerings\u003cbr\u003e Ode to Shadows\u003cbr\u003e Echoes\u003cbr\u003e The Revolution Is Over\u003cbr\u003e Returnee\u003cbr\u003e Salute from the Boston Cold\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563701793048,"sku":"9781496234032","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-gathering-of-bastards-paperback-softback-9781496234032","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}