Before Windmill Hill

International Human Rights Art Movement have published my poem ‘Before Windmill Hill’

A few years ago, I was privileged to attend a reading by the Somali-British poet, Momtaza Mehri. Momtaza spoke about her families experience as refugees coming from Somalia and how they had found homes in various European states.

The history of the British Isles, since the end of the Younger Dryas ice age, is one of successive waves of migrants arriving and settling. Windmill Hill in the title is an archaeological site where some of those early peoples left signs of their presence in various ritual earthworks.

The poem asks how does a land become a homeland and how do we become native to it? How do we find our home?

https://humanrightsartmovement.org/ihraf-publishes/windmill-smith