Nomad

by Romeo Oriogun

The Lambda Award-shortlisted poet’s debut, Sacrament of Bodies , was an epochal moment in Nigerian poetry, exploring masculinity and queerness. His follow-up widens his range, taking in exile, history, slavery, colonialism and postcolonialism, and contemporary politics of identity. Its narrative of seeing and surviving the world takes us through the West African countries of Benin Republic, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire.

Romeo Oriogun , a Nigerian poet and essayist, is the author of Sacrament of Bodies (University of Nebraska) and three chapbooks. He is the winner of the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. A finalist for the Lambda Prize for poetry and for The Future Awards African Prize for Literature, he has received fellowships and support from Ebedi International Writers Residency, Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Oregon Institute for Creative Research, and the IIE- Artist Protection Fund. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Havard Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine, The Common , and others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his poems have been translated into several languages.

Genres: Poetry

116 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Romeo Oriogun is a Nigerian poet whose poems have appeared on Prairie Schooner, Connotation Press, Brittle Paper, and others. He is the winner of the 2017 Brunel International African Prize for Poetry, his manuscript My Body Is No Miracle was shortlisted for the 2018 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. He is currently an Artist Protection Fund Fellow, a Scholars-at-Risk Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African American and African Studies and also a Visiting Poet in the English Department at Harvard University.