Bricks and mortar or a state of mind: what do we mean by home at the turn of the millennium How can we feel comfortably at home when we live among so many who are homeless 'Home', the second anthology in the Common Words series, contains twenty personal accounts, including an Afghan (in Dover), a Bosnian and a Kosovan refugee, a Serbian and a Burmese Jewish immigrant, a homeless person whose pitch is outside the Groucho Club, an ex-squatter, a Hackney teenager, a lifelong Eastender, an Exmoor farmer. Speakers, young and old, give accounts of growing up in care and boarding school, and of living in sheltered housing and a nursing home. The essays cover issues such as planetary citizenship, nationalism, communal living, architecture, mortgage repossession, health, woman and home. A wide range of poems further explore the meaning and experience of home, a word that excites deeply felt though often ambivalent emotions in us all.