Poole pottery — the Dorset-based factory known from the 1920s for its hand-decorated earthenware in distinctive geometric and floral patterns — appears in poems about English coastal light and the Arts and Crafts tradition; A poem about Poole Harbour might describe the pottery as part of the landscape it inhabits: "the same ochres and blues as the harbour wall, the same broad brushwork as the sky over the bay"; The Poole Studio period of the 1950s and 1960s — with its bold, abstract freehand designs in bright colours — suits poems about British modernism finding its way into domestic decoration; In a poem about a seaside holiday house, a Poole pottery vase on the windowsill connects the interior to the harbour outside: "the colours inside the room the colours of outside — the pot and the place speaking the same dialect"; The women decorators of Poole — who were given considerable creative freedom with pattern and colour — appear in poems about women's artistic labour within the crafts tradition; A contemporary poem about a charity shop find might describe a Poole Studio dish: "the abstract pattern still vivid, the glaze still sound — the 1960s condensed into a side plate."