The poems in Jean Stevens’ latest collection range through everything from a pub on the North York Moors , an encounter with a stranger and jackdaws who come to a reflection on Elisabeth Frink's ‘The Walking Madonna’, an accident on black ice, a muddy quad bike, and a meeting with Beethoven in Burnley. Among poems inspired by her Yorkshire Dales home ( .. ) are accounts of late love - and of quietly desolate loss: This is a body of work with a beating heart.