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- ↑ Pauline Prior-Pitt profile at Scottish Book Trust Archived 16 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Pauline Prior-Pitt | Poetry | Scottish Poetry Library". Spl.org.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
