Poguemahone
Patrick McCabe
A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto
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. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call girl. Young Una’s search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she’ll never get over. 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.
A 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. 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.
Author - Patrick McCabe.
Narrator - Patrick McCabe.
Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Location:
United States
Description:
A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto 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. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call girl. Young Una’s search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she’ll never get over. 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. A 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. 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. Author - Patrick McCabe. Narrator - Patrick McCabe. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
Duration:00:00:06
Chapter 2
Duration:00:29:28
Chapter 3
Duration:00:29:24
Chapter 4
Duration:00:29:53
Chapter 5
Duration:00:29:43
Chapter 6
Duration:00:29:35
Chapter 7
Duration:00:29:50
Chapter 8
Duration:00:29:33
Chapter 9
Duration:00:29:36
Chapter 10
Duration:00:29:47
Chapter 11
Duration:00:29:14
Chapter 12
Duration:00:29:50
Chapter 13
Duration:00:29:41
Chapter 14
Duration:00:30:01
Chapter 15
Duration:00:29:33
Chapter 16
Duration:00:29:50
Chapter 17
Duration:00:29:46
Chapter 18
Duration:00:29:45
Chapter 19
Duration:00:29:41
Chapter 20
Duration:00:30:00
Chapter 21
Duration:00:29:36
Chapter 22
Duration:00:29:46
Chapter 23
Duration:00:29:50
Chapter 24
Duration:00:29:52
Chapter 25
Duration:00:29:08
Chapter 26
Duration:00:29:45
Chapter 27
Duration:00:29:23
Chapter 28
Duration:00:29:39
Chapter 29
Duration:00:29:39
Chapter 30
Duration:00:29:47
Chapter 31
Duration:00:29:41
Chapter 32
Duration:00:29:44
Chapter 33
Duration:00:29:39
Chapter 34
Duration:00:08:22
Chapter 35
Duration:00:00:14