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- ↑ His memories of this association were published in the festschrift Another Round at the Pillars, ed. David Harsent, Cargo Press, Cornwall, 1999; it is available online
- ↑ Peter Dale in conversation with Cynthia Haven. Waywiser-press.com. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.
- ↑ "Ian Hamilton in Conversation with Peter Dale", Agenda 31.2, 1993, pp. 7–21
- ↑ Ian Hamilton website
- ↑ International Who's Who of Authors and Writers'. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.
- 1 2 Peter Dale. Lidiavianu.scriptmania.com. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.
- ↑ This was produced for sale at The Visceral Image group exhibition held in the Woodstock Gallery, London, between 20 July – 15 August 1959. The others participating were Eddie Wolfram (paintings), M.J.Foley (drawings) and Isaac Witkin (sculptures). Dale's poems were handwritten on hardboard and displayed on the walls and there was a tape-recording of him reading these.
- ↑ In a personal letter dated 1985 discovered in a second hand copy Dale described it as "an abortion of a book I rushed through when [Macmillan] were axing their list"
