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- ↑ "Peter van Toorn riggin dat slapstuff". Books in Canada , April 2002.
- ↑ "Recollections". Canadian Literature , Summer 2006, Issue 189. pp. 139-142.
- 1 2 Peter van Toorn: Six Poems. Jacket2, Issue 34, October 2007.
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