AN EXHIBITION using poetry and music to explore Durham's World Heritage Site (WHS) is opening.

In Other Words is being held to mark the end of the 30th anniversary celebrations, which took place throughout 2016.

Artist Alan O’Cain has been working with composer Neil Crimes, technologist Juliet Lunn and Mike Hughes, who is head gardener at Durham Botanic Garden to produce the exhibition at the World Heritage Site visitor centre in Owengate.

It features haiku poems composed by Durham students from all over the work and an original piano score.

Visitors will be invited to make sense of the work in a "thought yard".

WHS coordinator Jane Gibson said: "The aim of the installation is to surprise, ask questions and provoke emotional responses; to present something unusual yet accessible and at best to overwhelm and entertain."

It is free and open daily from Monday, January 23 to Wednesday, March 8.