John Longdon was one of Teesside's eccentrics. He was also a formidable intellectual who enlarged the lives of several generations of writers in the North East . Although the poems in LP's and Singles where written over a period of fifty years, most have never been published. Traditional verse forms are set to the music of Northern English speech to produce an idiosyncratic and intensely lyrical poetry of love, landscape and loss, a remarkable collection by one of Teesside's remarkable poets.