Out on 12 November 2026
Synopsis
‘If you’re looking for this century’s Ulysses, look no further’ - The Observer
‘Wildly original’ - Times Literary Supplement
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.
Details
12 November 2026
624 pages
9781037404399
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
“McCabe may be right when he claims that Poguemahone is his best book: it is startlingly original, moving, funny, frightening and beautiful”Ian Duhig, The Guardian
“A bleakly comic, wildly original 600-page epic about loss, exile and mental illness . . . Poguemahone is, in content and execution, frequently astonishing . . . in its haunting strangeness and blazing originality, it deserves far more than a cult following”Times Literary Supplement, Times Literary Supplement
“Poguemahone, living up to its author’s reputation, is daring, studded with brilliance”The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review
“Lively and ambitious in form, this admirably extends the range of McCabe’s career-long examination of familial and childhood trauma”Publishers Weekly, Publishers Weekly
