THE climate crisis has been explored in a newly published literary collection.

Dr Martyn Halsall, a former Guardian staff correspondent, has written a new collection called The Weather Door, published by The Book Mill.

Dr Halsall moved to Ovington two years ago and is involved in writers' workshops, reading and study groups in Hexham and Corbridge.

The new collection explores humanity's interaction with weather and the natural world at a time of radical climate change.

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The 55 poems range from riffs on named sea areas like Tyne, Cromarty and Southeast Iceland, through the lessons humanity can learn from observing and experiencing various kinds of weather to a sequence about England's worst lifeboat disaster off the coast of Southport.

He worked on regional and local newspapers before joining The Guardian, later combining working as a communications adviser in the Church of England with post-graduate creative writing studies at the Universities of Lancaster and Cumbria.

Various writers including acclaimed Scottish novelist Margaret Elphinstone have praised the work, citing it as 'eloquent and polymathic in its embrace of landscape and belief, folklore and wildlife'.

Dr Halsall became the first Poet in Residence at Carlisle Cathedral after retiring from journalism, which led to the publication of his first full poetry collection, Sanctuary.