Martin  Rieser
Bristol UK


Martin Rieser is both a poet and visual artist. His interactive installations based on his poetry have been shown around the world,
including Understanding Echo shown in Japan 2002, Hosts Bath Abbey 2006, Secret Door Invideo Milan 2006, The Street RMIT Gallery Melbourne 2008/ISEA Belfast 2009, Secret Garden, Phoenix Square 2012/Taipei 2013 and RUR at Glyndebourne in 2014 for REFRAME at the University of Sussex.
He has developed mobile artworks using interactive text and image for Leicester, London and Athens and exhibited the Third Woman Interactive film in Vienna, Xian and New York. He has been published in Poetry Review and Magma and has been shortlisted  He has published in Poetry Review and the Write to be Counted anthology, Magma Magazine 74, was short listed for the Frosted Fire pamphlet competition
for the Cheltenham Festival in 2019, and for the Charles Causley poetry Prize in 2020. He was Poet of the Month on Poetry Kit and runs the Stanza poetry group in Bristol.


Poem was completed: 6th May 2020
:
May Zoom Poetry Cafe Writing


I sit in the bright kitchen, dishwasher churring,
long clouds passing slowly,  on a May morning.

A wind is blowing out there, beyond the panes,
beyond the loss of lockdown.

On the table- a blue glass jug full of wild carrot,
a bowl of apples, a bottle of prescribed vitamins,

rubber gloves and kitchen roll-
reminders of Spring and of precaution.

Near me, the screen divides into nine squares of concentration
nine poets , mute in their writing bubbles.

Pens scraping at the comfort of isolation,
reaching down, below the page.