During the production and marketing of Washing Lines Barbara and Janie discovered they have many things in common other than a love of laundry and poetry. They both love liquorice, they both love angels, and they both inherited trinket boxes from their grandmothers which fascinated them as young girls and grew into an interest in all things precious, semi-precious and sparkly. Barbara bought and sold jewellery in an antique stall for several years. Thus our new collection of poetry inspired by jewels and jewellery came to life. Unsurprisingly these poems are rarely about the face value of the gemstones; rather they tell stories of love and loss, memories and moments. We hope you will treasure them too.

Tatler/Vogue/Oxford Times (already promised)

• Robert Graves The Necklace: Helen Dunmore Greek Beads: Kathleen Jamie The Brooch: Menna Elfyn Brooch: Robert Herrick A Ring Presented to Julia: George Crabbe A Marriage Ring: Inscription inside a watch: Eithne Cavanagh The Necklace: Gillian Clarke Amber: Colette Bryce The Wearer: Julie O'Callaghan Opals : Alicia Stubbersfield Jane's Pearls: Moniza Alvi Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan: Simon Armitage from The Book of Matches: Victoria Redel Bedecked: Ted Hughes The Locket: Edna St Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had: Grevel Lindop My Grandmother's Opal: William Strode A Necklace: Carol Ann Duffy Warming her Pearls: Emily Dickinson I held a jewel: Chang Chi The Chaste Wife's Reply: H D The Flowering of the Rod: Robert Louis Stevenson I Will Make You Brooches: Arthur Weir A Mother's Jewels: T S Eliot A Game of Chess: William Shakespeare from A Lover's Complaint: Jane Draycott Pearl: Eithne Cavanagh A Beading of Words: Traditional Nursery Rhymes: Louisa May Alcott Here is the Bracelet: Christina Rossetti Precious Stones: Dorothy Parker The Choice: Traditional Birthstones: C P Cavafy For the Shop: James Fenton Nothing: Sally Evans Whitby Jet: Gillian Clarke Welsh Gold: Fleur Adcock Blue Glass: Robert Graves The Uncut Diamond: Elizabeth Jennings The Diamond Cutter: Alfred Teynnyson from Morte d'Arthur: Geoffrey Chaucer from Romaunt of the Rose: Carol Ann Duffy Rings: Robert Graves A Lost Jewel: Sally Evans Brooch Found at Redcar: John Keats from The Eve of St Agnes: Thomas Moore Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore: Ruth Fainlight Nacre: Kit Wright In Memory of a Beautiful Jeweller: Leysa Lowery String of Pearls: Robert Graves A Bracelet: Sarah Maguire The Invisible Mender (My First Mother): Alice Walker We Alone: Harold Monro Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Tess Gallagher from Two Bracelets: Matthew Francis Of Diamonds: Robert Herrick The Bracelet: To Julia: Homer from The Odyssey (trans by Robert Fagles): Robert Melliard Jewellery: Sasha Moorsom Jewels in my hand

During the production and marketing of Washing Lines Barbara and Janie discovered they have many things in common other than a love of laundry and poetry. They both love liquorice, they both love angels, and they both inherited trinket boxes from their grandmothers which fascinated them as young girls and grew into an interest in all things precious, semi-precious and sparkly. Barbara bought and sold jewellery in an antique stall for several years. Thus our new collection of poetry inspired by jewels and jewellery came to life. Unsurprisingly these poems are rarely about the face value of the gemstones; rather they tell stories of love and loss, memories and moments. We hope you will treasure them too.

Tatler/Vogue/Oxford Times (already promised)

• Robert Graves The Necklace: Helen Dunmore Greek Beads: Kathleen Jamie The Brooch: Menna Elfyn Brooch: Robert Herrick A Ring Presented to Julia: George Crabbe A Marriage Ring: Inscription inside a watch: Eithne Cavanagh The Necklace: Gillian Clarke Amber: Colette Bryce The Wearer: Julie O'Callaghan Opals : Alicia Stubbersfield Jane's Pearls: Moniza Alvi Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan: Simon Armitage from The Book of Matches: Victoria Redel Bedecked: Ted Hughes The Locket: Edna St Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had: Grevel Lindop My Grandmother's Opal: William Strode A Necklace: Carol Ann Duffy Warming her Pearls: Emily Dickinson I held a jewel: Chang Chi The Chaste Wife's Reply: H D The Flowering of the Rod: Robert Louis Stevenson I Will Make You Brooches: Arthur Weir A Mother's Jewels: T S Eliot A Game of Chess: William Shakespeare from A Lover's Complaint: Jane Draycott Pearl: Eithne Cavanagh A Beading of Words: Traditional Nursery Rhymes: Louisa May Alcott Here is the Bracelet: Christina Rossetti Precious Stones: Dorothy Parker The Choice: Traditional Birthstones: C P Cavafy For the Shop: James Fenton Nothing: Sally Evans Whitby Jet: Gillian Clarke Welsh Gold: Fleur Adcock Blue Glass: Robert Graves The Uncut Diamond: Elizabeth Jennings The Diamond Cutter: Alfred Teynnyson from Morte d'Arthur: Geoffrey Chaucer from Romaunt of the Rose: Carol Ann Duffy Rings: Robert Graves A Lost Jewel: Sally Evans Brooch Found at Redcar: John Keats from The Eve of St Agnes: Thomas Moore Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore: Ruth Fainlight Nacre: Kit Wright In Memory of a Beautiful Jeweller: Leysa Lowery String of Pearls: Robert Graves A Bracelet: Sarah Maguire The Invisible Mender (My First Mother): Alice Walker We Alone: Harold Monro Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Tess Gallagher from Two Bracelets: Matthew Francis Of Diamonds: Robert Herrick The Bracelet: To Julia: Homer from The Odyssey (trans by Robert Fagles): Robert Melliard Jewellery: Sasha Moorsom Jewels in my hand

During the production and marketing of Washing Lines Barbara and Janie discovered they have many things in common other than a love of laundry and poetry. They both love liquorice, they both love angels, and they both inherited trinket boxes from their grandmothers which fascinated them as young girls and grew into an interest in all things precious, semi-precious and sparkly. Barbara bought and sold jewellery in an antique stall for several years. Thus our new collection of poetry inspired by jewels and jewellery came to life. Unsurprisingly these poems are rarely about the face value of the gemstones; rather they tell stories of love and loss, memories and moments. We hope you will treasure them too.

Tatler/Vogue/Oxford Times (already promised)

• Robert Graves The Necklace: Helen Dunmore Greek Beads: Kathleen Jamie The Brooch: Menna Elfyn Brooch: Robert Herrick A Ring Presented to Julia: George Crabbe A Marriage Ring: Inscription inside a watch: Eithne Cavanagh The Necklace: Gillian Clarke Amber: Colette Bryce The Wearer: Julie O'Callaghan Opals : Alicia Stubbersfield Jane's Pearls: Moniza Alvi Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan: Simon Armitage from The Book of Matches: Victoria Redel Bedecked: Ted Hughes The Locket: Edna St Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had: Grevel Lindop My Grandmother's Opal: William Strode A Necklace: Carol Ann Duffy Warming her Pearls: Emily Dickinson I held a jewel: Chang Chi The Chaste Wife's Reply: H D The Flowering of the Rod: Robert Louis Stevenson I Will Make You Brooches: Arthur Weir A Mother's Jewels: T S Eliot A Game of Chess: William Shakespeare from A Lover's Complaint: Jane Draycott Pearl: Eithne Cavanagh A Beading of Words: Traditional Nursery Rhymes: Louisa May Alcott Here is the Bracelet: Christina Rossetti Precious Stones: Dorothy Parker The Choice: Traditional Birthstones: C P Cavafy For the Shop: James Fenton Nothing: Sally Evans Whitby Jet: Gillian Clarke Welsh Gold: Fleur Adcock Blue Glass: Robert Graves The Uncut Diamond: Elizabeth Jennings The Diamond Cutter: Alfred Teynnyson from Morte d'Arthur: Geoffrey Chaucer from Romaunt of the Rose: Carol Ann Duffy Rings: Robert Graves A Lost Jewel: Sally Evans Brooch Found at Redcar: John Keats from The Eve of St Agnes: Thomas Moore Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore: Ruth Fainlight Nacre: Kit Wright In Memory of a Beautiful Jeweller: Leysa Lowery String of Pearls: Robert Graves A Bracelet: Sarah Maguire The Invisible Mender (My First Mother): Alice Walker We Alone: Harold Monro Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Tess Gallagher from Two Bracelets: Matthew Francis Of Diamonds: Robert Herrick The Bracelet: To Julia: Homer from The Odyssey (trans by Robert Fagles): Robert Melliard Jewellery: Sasha Moorsom Jewels in my hand