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 runs the Stanza poetry group in Bristol.

Published: Poetry Review, Write to be Counted,The Unpredicted Spring 2020, Frosted Fire Firsts Anthology 2020/22; Calyx Tangent Books 2017; The Weather Indoors Tangent Books 2020; Walking Words Bristol Books 2023; Poets Walk Bristol Nooks 2025; Magma 74, Morphrog 22; Poetry kit;  Primers Volume 3, Artlyst Anthology 2020, Steel Jackdaw 9, Alchemist’s Spoon 2022, Ink Sweat and Tears 2019/2023, Ekphrastic Review 2023, Agenda 2024, Acumen 2024, Cerusus 2024, Allegro 2024, Brussels Review 2024/25.

Longlisted Erbecce Prize 2023; Shortlisted : Frosted Fire 2019 /2022; Charles Causeley Prize 2020; Wolves Poetry Competition 2022; Artemesia Arts Poetry Competition 2023/24 2025; Commended: Slipstream Poetry 2024; Indigo Dreams Spring Poetry Prize 2025 Highly Commended Erbecce Prize 2025 ; Runner Up: Norman Nicholson Lockdown Poetry Prize 2021; Bozarts Poetry Prize Winner Hastings Poetry Competition 2021.