HeaneyS.Seeing Things.London, Boston: Faber and Faber, 1991: p. 108.
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HeaneyS.Seeing Things.London, Boston: Faber and Faber, 1991: p. 108.
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HoldredgeC.Genetics and the Manipulation of Life. The Forgotten Factor of Context. Hudson, New York: Lindisfarne Press, 1996: pp. 40–41.
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The poem “A Crabbit Old Woman” appeared in the Beacon House News Magazine of the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health, and also in Barrow Hospital's The Barrow Broadsheet.
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The quoted phrase is a slight modification of two lines: God loves babes and beasts and birds All small things that have no words. from Jean Ritchie's Lullaby. Ritchie J. All Little Ones Are Sleeping.New York: Geordie Music Publishing Co., 1968.
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BaurS.The Dinosaur Man. Tales of madness and enchantment from the back ward.New York: Edward Burlingame Books, 1991: 106.
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ArnoldM. Source unknown to me.
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MiloszC.Earth Again. In the collection of poems Unattainable Earth. Translated by the author and Robert Hass. New York: The Ecco Press, 1968; p. 8.