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.

“The Coffin Path is a book of poems and photographs that surge and pulse with life. Exquisitely crafted, the poems are tender, unflinching, great swirls of language that transport me into the magical lands of West Penwith. Black and white images punctuate the poems or maybe the poems punctuate the images — either way there is a musicality at work here that is assured and inspiring. I felt my spirit swell when reading this book.” Ayson Hallett “I felt a dizzying sense of freedom after reading these poems, the way they honour the wild beauty of West Penwith’s far coastline and so much embedded personal history. ‘The force of memory/ rushes over an edge/ & sweeps me/ down the long drop.’ There’s a sense of ‘the energy of saints’ in the salted miles of air, sea, stone, and wondrously prolific natural world, all caught in exacting language, and an exuberant, vibrant tone. Fabulous.”Dr Rosie Jackson“To say that the poet knows West Penwith does not go nearly far enough; I would say rather he has lived it. This collection demonstrates that, in traversing this well-loved landscape, Rieser’s observations of its topography, its plant life, and wild life, have been detailed and thoughtful, just as his understanding of the landscape resonates with deep-seated spiritual significance.”Abigail Otley

• Coffin PathOn Mulfra HillRecipe for a BuzzardHow to Walk to the SeaMulfra Quoit The Giant’s NoseWind-walkingSwimming into the CaveFetchMiracleStream The LaneVisit The Stone BridgeDry Stone WallThe wifi isn’t workingBlack rainWest Penwith CliffsWaterfall Under the RadarClairaudientMoorland spidersLittoralSeal

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.

“The Coffin Path is a book of poems and photographs that surge and pulse with life. Exquisitely crafted, the poems are tender, unflinching, great swirls of language that transport me into the magical lands of West Penwith. Black and white images punctuate the poems or maybe the poems punctuate the images — either way there is a musicality at work here that is assured and inspiring. I felt my spirit swell when reading this book.” Ayson Hallett “I felt a dizzying sense of freedom after reading these poems, the way they honour the wild beauty of West Penwith’s far coastline and so much embedded personal history. ‘The force of memory/ rushes over an edge/ & sweeps me/ down the long drop.’ There’s a sense of ‘the energy of saints’ in the salted miles of air, sea, stone, and wondrously prolific natural world, all caught in exacting language, and an exuberant, vibrant tone. Fabulous.”Dr Rosie Jackson“To say that the poet knows West Penwith does not go nearly far enough; I would say rather he has lived it. This collection demonstrates that, in traversing this well-loved landscape, Rieser’s observations of its topography, its plant life, and wild life, have been detailed and thoughtful, just as his understanding of the landscape resonates with deep-seated spiritual significance.”Abigail Otley

• Coffin PathOn Mulfra HillRecipe for a BuzzardHow to Walk to the SeaMulfra Quoit The Giant’s NoseWind-walkingSwimming into the CaveFetchMiracleStream The LaneVisit The Stone BridgeDry Stone WallThe wifi isn’t workingBlack rainWest Penwith CliffsWaterfall Under the RadarClairaudientMoorland spidersLittoralSeal