Drinking song and punk libretto, ancient as myth and wholly original, Poguemahone is the devastating telling of one family's history-and the forces, seen and unseen, that make their fate. Choosing it as the title of his latest book may be Poguemahone is the anglicized form of the Gaelic phrase pg mo thin, meaning kiss my arse. Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories unspool from Dan's mouth and his own role in the tale grows ever stranger- and more sinister.Ī swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue, Patrick McCabe's epic reinvention of the verse novel combines Modernist fragmentation and Beat spontaneity with Irish folklore, then douses it in whiskey and sets it on fire. Poguemahone by Patrick McCabe book review The TLS Poguemahone is the anglicized form of the Gaelic phrase pg mo thin, meaning kiss my arse. Young Una's search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she'll never get over. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Explore books by Patrick McCabe with our selection at. Genres Fiction Poetry Irish Literature Ireland Literary Fiction Novels Historical Fiction. A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. 1.1K views, 20 likes, 4 loves, 20 comments, 15 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Unbound: You are cordially invited to our premiere of three short film extracts from twice Booker-nominated Patrick. Our initial summer reads, and we talk to the wonderful Patrick McCabe about his ghost-rich novel, Poguemahone. Poguemahone is a wild, free-verse monologue, steeped in music and folklore, crammed with characters, both real and imagined, on a scale Patrick McCabe has never attempted before.

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