This compilation collects works made by poets who work with sound. Contributors were asked to respond to any or all of three poems taken from the ‘Tracking (notes)’ sequence in Tom Raworth’s 1973 book Act (see accompanying pdf). Most were motivated by the third of these, a diagram-poem. The title of the compilation, Attention Moves, is a phrase from a much later Raworth poem, ‘Errory’. See individual tracks for contributor notes.
Will Montgomery, March 2024


Contributors

Tom Betteridge is a poet and musician living in London. His poetry pamphlets include Dog Shades (2023, Just Not), Mudchute (2021, Veer 2) and Dressings (Materials, 2019). Tom also experiments with voice and tape, concrete collage and field recording, with recent releases from Falt (Adits, 2023) and Brachliegen Tapes (pearly, 2023). Tom’s self-released works can be found on his bandcamp page: tombetteridge.bandcamp.com

Amy Cutler is a multi-media artist, designer, performer, and experimental writer. She is interested in weather systems, love songs, elegies, tear jerkers, and the Anthropocene uncanny. She is a Lecturer in Interactive Narrative at Exeter University, but also works in multiple fields: bio-art, live cinema, poetry, game design, geography, and science. Her recent album SISTER TIME, which manipulates her own childhood mixtapes from a critical perspective, was in the 2023 ‘best album of the year’ lists by Tabs Out, The Wire magazine, and Bandcamp.

Iris Colomb is a poet, artist, performer, curator, editor, and translator based in London. Her practice explores various relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through projects involving performance, book objects, improvisation, and experimental translation. Iris is the founder of the investigative poetry and performance platform SLANT and currently co-runs the experimental poetry series Xing The Line. She is Co-Editor of HVTN Press, as well as half of the performance duo Soft Play, half of the text and sound project [something’s happening], a third of the improvising band daylightbulb, and a member of London Improvisers Orchestra. Her fourth pamphlet, Ridiculous Unlikely Attempt, was published by Hesterglock Press in December 2023. 

David Grundy is a poet and scholar and currently makes music with, among others, Tansy Spinks (duo), GUE (trio) and Multiple Melodicas (multiple).

Clay Slade is a poet, composer and musician, who has written, produced and performed internationally. They are currently completing a Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway. Their most recent work includes Water Score - a collaborative set of field recordings of and with the River Lea; and Kind Words, a choral interruption of the lyric ‘I’. Upcoming EP Night Creatures, a collaboration between vocal ensemble Howl, Rob Macfarlane and Yuvan Aves, will be released on Tardigrade Records in April 2024.

Andy Spragg has written several books of poetry, including OoP (Veer 2, 2022). He has written for a variety of magazines, journals and websites, including Datableed, The Hythe (87 Press), PN Review, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Quietus . He runs the small press RunAmok with Jimmy Cummins, and his music is available here - runamok1.bandcamp.com

Laurel Uziell is Tooth Rust, 33-50% of Egg Meat, 33% of GUE, and some poems. There is very little left after this.