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- ↑ "Ken Norris - Department of English - University of Maine".
- 1 2 3 McGill University. "Norris, Ken - Archival Collections Catalogue". McGill Archival Collections Catalogue. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ↑ "Interviews: Ken Norris Spotlighted". Poetry Quebec, issue no. 7.
- ↑ Louis Dudek (1 January 1992). "Ken Norris on the Twentieth Century". Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality. Véhicule Press. pp. 33–48. ISBN 978-1-55065-032-7.
- ↑ Fetherling, George (19 April 2003). "Some writers prefer small presses: Prolific, genre-spanning Maritimer Lesley Choyce is one, Montreal poet Ken Norris is another". Vancouver Sun (British Columbia). p. D18 – via LexisNexis.
In the 1970s, Ken Norris was a key figure in the group of anglophone Montreal writers known as the Vehicule Poets.
- ↑ "Ken Norris, Vehicule Poets." Montreal Underground Origins Blog. November 27. 2015 https://www.montrealundergroundorigins.ca/ken-norris-vehicule-poet/?complete=1
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