Dispersed, Dislocated is a poetry book for dipping in and out of.

Flora Small first became known to the Festival as a member of our History Research Group, working behind the scenes on the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail. Sticking with us since 2021, Flora is a proud local woman, mother and poet.

Flora’s work on the Trail has shown her that legacy is important. What will be there in your place, when you are no longer around to ask? Thus, Flora has created a book of poems, available throughout the Festival and beyond. Called Dispersed, Dislocated it’s 58-pages (plus cover) and includes a number of illustrations by her son, Ben.

To get Flora’s special book rate of £8 (+£2 post and packaging), in the run up to and during the Festival, contact Flora directly on: [email protected]  Alternatively, grab a copy at News From Nowhere (Bold Street, Liverpool) or from Art Quarter in the MetQuarter (Whitechapel, Liverpool).

We’ll have Flora read a couple of poems at our Festival launch at the Liverpool Irish Centre (17 Oct 2024) and another at our Family Day on 26 Oct 2024 at Museum of Liverpool.

Here’s what Flora has to say about her book:

Dispersed, Dislocated

a collection of sensitively illustrated poems celebrating
what it is to be Liverpool Irish.  And the connection
over many hundreds of years, relating

to the foundation of the town in 1207, and before.
The mass migrational flood of the Great Irish Famine
and the subsequent waves that battered our shore,

creating the unique identity of this great town,
as it blended its many cultures, creating diversity, unity:
a river of  flow and change that we call our own.

Flora Small, 7 July 2024.