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- ↑ Sue Hubbard, "The new Romantics", New Statesman, December 4, 2006.
- ↑ Joseph del Pesco An interview with Amy Balkin Archived 2008-04-20 at the Wayback Machine , Dotes And Quotes, 2007.
- ↑ "Symposium C6 » Amy Balkin". Archived from the original on 2009-09-24. Retrieved 2009-11-16. Symposiumc6.com
- ↑ "Welcome". thisisthepublicdomain.org. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ↑ Rising Tide Conference Archived May 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine , Stanford University, April 18th, 2009.
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- ↑ Dodson, Sean (2004-06-24). "Web watch". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ↑ Cape Farewell
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