A 600-page novel in verse by an author known for his intense stories about the Irish underclass. Poguemahone is about a pair of Irish siblings living in a London squat in the 1970s, along with the colorful (and haunted) characters surrounding them.
It's an entertaining enough story, but it is not enhanced by the poetic form. Most of the content is straightforwardly narrative and would work better as prose.
The Guardian pull-quote on the cover compares Poguemahone to Ulysses, presumably because McCabe is an Irish author experimenting with the form of a novel, but a better comparison is Fight Club, which may constitute a spoiler.
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