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FURTHER POP STARS JOIN 'POGUE' CAMPAIGN
Sunday, 7 November 2021
FURTHER POP STARS SAY 'YES PLEASE, POGUE!'
MAUREEN 'MISS DYNAMITE' MC LEOD JOINS UNBOUND CAMPAIGN ALONG WITH BOOKER T. AND 'THE BOYS.'
'DON'T SAY GOODNIGHT MIDNIGHT', MAUREEN URGES,' AT LEAST UNTIL YOU HAVE SECURED YOUR HARDBACK OR PAPERBACK FIRST EDITION OF THE SMASHEROO NOVEL BY PAT MC CABE ENTITLED 'POGUEMAHONE'. WHICH IS ABOUT KITTY THE HARE THE HOODED WOMAN STORYTELLER FROM THE…
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Booker T. & The M.G's speak out about POGUMAHONE.
Friday, 5 November 2021
Hi guys,
You might remember out top hit from the sixties enttitled TIME IS TIGHT.
Well it is for POGUEMAHONE - midnight on NOV 7, in fact!
So,come on folks - let's mix some metaphors and bury this project in a blaze of glory!
O-and the AUTHOR says A BIG THANKS to you all!!!
Booker
(Nothing to do with the 'prize' people.)
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CLOSING DOWN SALE AT GERTIE'S!!!
Friday, 22 October 2021
Hi Sumbitches,
Gertie here at the end of the road - free Rolo with every copy of A Critique of Pure Reason or anything by Bertrand ('Bertie') Rusell!
Just to say that if anyone you know wants to buy and get their name in POGUEMAHONE the big book what my son-in-law writted then you have to 'move' before midnight 7 Nov. Imagine - your auld stupid name in my buke! The world's gone mad. But…
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GERTIE NEWS: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TIMOTHY CARSTAIRS-MULLIGAN?
Friday, 14 May 2021
You'll never believe this – but I was shovelling some new butternut sweets into a bag out of our recent delivery when I looked up and, to my surprise, descried right there in front of me an extremely irate-looking gentleman, very ruddy of cheek with his hat alarmingly askew on the side of his head, cracking his knuckles as he heaved: 'Look here you! This has gone far enough!'
And then proceeding…
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Crocky 'Melodeon' Grimes
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Once I knew a fellow, during the time I lived in Hackney, called Crocky Melodeon Grimes who came from Currabawn where the idea of a joke was saying to someone: 'Did you see such-and-such going around the place without me?'
Well, anyway, Crocky wore an Afghan and stank to high heaven of patchouli, physically not unlike Vincent Crane, the virtuoso keyboard wizard responsible for cascades of arpeggios…
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Naked Nudies As Nature Intended
Friday, 29 January 2021
When I was living in London myself, and Lord knows now that that's neither today nor yesterday, there was nothing I liked better than a nice penny bun and a cup of Brooke Bond on The Strand, in Lyons's Corner House - followed by a trip out to The Paperback Centre in Stockwell to pick up my weekly copy of Naked Nudies As Nature Intended, which 'Pop' Mc Gurran (himself a native of Currabawn, not far…
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Mr Exu
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Just who is he: Mr Exu?
I dont know but I'll tell you this - if he was around here you wouldn't be long finding out, I can tell you that.
Best
G.(Gertie)
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shop in space
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
hey partners!
welcome to my intergalactic kiosk on the corner, ably managed by myself, Gertie Pogue, and assistant, Maura Tone. It's great to see you all here, and I hope plenty more. I only wish I could supply a balsa wood hang glider with painted-on markings for the boys and maybe a charm bracelet for the ladies, if that's not out of date in these times, but i haven't got any anyway as, you see…
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