Poguemahone

'If you're looking for this century's Ulysses, look no further' - The Observer 'Wildly original' - Times Literary Supplement Memory, loss and the long shadow of Irish history, told in verse by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe. Dan Fogarty is visiting his seventy-year-old sister Una, who is living in a care home in Margate. Una has dementia, but she is still able to recall her youth, spent in a hippie commune in South London. A picture of their family's history begins to emerge; the Fogartys were evicted from their home of Currabawn in Ireland in the 1950s, and both Dan and Una have been haunted by this forced exile. A sprawling, dazzlingly inventive novel in verse, Poguemahone cements McCabe's status as one of Ireland's greatest writers. Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.