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- 1 2 3 4 "Bio", Tom Lowenstein website.
- ↑ "Tom Lowenstein", Carcanet Press.
- ↑ "Tom Lowenstein | Fellow: Awarded 1979", John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- ↑ "Sun, Moon and Women Shouting", Ed Hughes website.
- ↑ "Cryng Bird, Echoing Star", Gramophone.
- ↑ "Companion of Angels Performances", Blake Newsletter, Volume 41 · Issue 2, Fall 2007.
- ↑ "The Death of Mrs. Owl" at Carcanet.
