The Gathering of Bastards

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 N