The Gathering - Sherah Bloor

Sherah Bloor

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Published 6 October 2026

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  • Pages · 96 pages
  • Publication Date · 06/10/2026
  • Genre · Religion & beliefs
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Poetry that serves as a broad collection of historical incidents and considers how we weigh and value events. Named for a sura of the Quran, The Gathering is an epic in cantos that indiscriminately records deeds and events that have taken place on this earth. Its speaker-a nearly omniscient archivist-is propelled by a force more elemental than causation to visit moments and subjects, moving swiftly through thoughts, physiologies, and environments. Under an imperative to record everything encountered-however small, cruel, or sad-the archivist must grant radically equal weight to each thing. Yet as these entries accumulate, a strange significance accrues, and the negligible seems necessary. Each mundane fragment of life finds consolation. What was, was; what happened, got to happen.

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