To Run Away from Home
Information about the early suburbs in Australia comes from Ian Hoskins, ‘Construction Time and Space in the Garden Suburb’ and Kathryn Millard, ‘Beyond the Pale: Colour and the Suburb’ both in Sarah Ferber, Chris Healy and Chris McAuliffe (eds) Beasts of Suburbia: Reinterpreting Cultures in Australian Suburbs (MUP, 1994); and from Robert Beuka, SuburbiaNation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Fiona Allon’s book on renovation is Renovation Nation: Our Obsession with Home (UNSW Press, 2008); and the quotes from Gaston Bachelard come from The Poetics of Space (Beacon Press, 1964).
The Everyday Injuries
The description of kangaroos comes from Lucy Treloar’s Salt Creek (Picador, 2015).
Back to Cronulla
This essay discusses Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey’s Puberty Blues (Picador, 1979). Also cited is Ghassan Hage’s ‘At Home in the Entrails of the West: multiculturalism, ethnic food and migrant home-building’ in Helen Grace, Ghassan Hage, Lesley Johnson, Julie Langsworth and Michael Symonds (eds) home/world: space, community and marginality in Sydney’s West (Pluto Press, 1997).
What It Means for Spring to Come
The poems quoted in this essay are David Antin’s ‘spring love noise and all’ from what it means to be avant-garde (New Directions, 1993) and Maurice Riordan’s ‘Stars and Jasmine’ from The Water Stealer (Faber and Faber, 2013). Also quoted is Eileen Myles’ Chelsea Girls (Serpent’s Tail, 2016).
Relaxed, Even Resigned
The three newspaper articles discussed here are Matthew Knott’s ‘Election 2016: The uncomfortable truth is the media got it wrong’ from Sydney Morning Herald, 6/7/16; Bernard Salt’s ‘Goat’s cheese curtain separates a nation growing more divided’ from The Australian 15/12/16; and Jacob Saulwick’s ‘How Sydney’s planners are using the “Latte Line” to try and reshape the city’ from Sydney Morning Herald, 17/12/16. Peter Freund’s ideas come from his paper ‘The Expressive Body: a common ground for the sociology of emotions and health and illness’ in Sociology of Health and Illness, 12:4, 1990.
Perhaps This One Will Be My Last Share House
The statistics in this essay are drawn mostly from the report Unsettled: Life in Australia’s Private Rental Market, by Choice, National Shelter and the National Association of Tenant Organisations (February 2017); and also from the 13th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey (2017) and the European Union Commission’s Population by Tenure Status report. Other information comes from Kate Shaw’s ‘Renting for life? Housing shift requires a rethink of renters’ rights’ and Peter Walters’ ‘Without affordable housing, we won’t have a society worth living in’, both published in The Conversation. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was first outlined in ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’ in Psychological Review 50, 1943; and the Chris Kraus quote is from Aliens and Anorexia (Semiotext(e), 2000).
Slipstone, Clingstone
The poems in this essay are Jane Gibian’s ‘Slipstone’ (misquoted) from Journal of Poetics Research; Chris Mansell’s ‘Lady Gedanke discusses poetry with the avocadoes’ from Redshift/Blueshift (Five Islands Press, 1988); Louise Glück’s ‘Vespers [once I believed in you]’ and ‘Ripe Peach’, both from Poems 1962–2012 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013); Michael Dransfield’s ‘Fugue in G minor’ from Collected Poems (UQP, 1980) and Thomas Shapcott’s ‘Those Who Have Seen Visions’ from Selected Poems 1956–1988 (UQP, 1989).
The World Was Whole, Always
The poems quoted in this essay are Les Murray’s ‘Home Suite’ from Translations from the Natural World (Isabella Press, 1992); Grace Paley’s ‘House: Some Instructions’ from Begin Again: The Collected Poems of Grace Paley (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999); Louise Glück’s ‘Aubade’ from Poems 1962–2012 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) and Gwen Harwood’s ‘To Another Poet’ and ‘Two Lovely Girls Come Knocking’, both from Collected Poems 1943–1995 (UQP, 2003).
A Regular Choreography
This essay draws on Iris Marion Young’s book On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays (Oxford UP, New York 2005); Rita Felski’s Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (NYU Press, New York, 2000); and Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind, (Routledge Classics, 2002). Information about habit formation and routine comes from Wendy Wood, Jeffrey M. Quinn and Deborah A. Kashy, ‘Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion and Action’ in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83:6, 2002.
When Hearts Are Thin
The poems quoted in this essay are Luke Davies’ ‘Winter’ from Running With Light (Allen & Unwin, 1999); Vivian Smith’s ‘Winter’ from New Selected Poems (Angus and Robertson, 1995); Sylvia Plath’s ‘Winter Landscape, with Rooks’.
A Gravity Problem
The image of the ghost woman comes from Kaitlyn Plyley’s excellent podcast about chronic illness ‘Just a Spoonful’ (https://bit.ly/2wnngz7). This essay quotes from Emily Martin’s Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS (Beacon Press, Massachusetts, 1994). The statistics on chronic illness come from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (http://www.aihw.gov.au/chronic-diseases/); and the Australian Government’s definition of disability is in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2016C00763). Information on accessibility in Sydney’s train system comes from Jacob Saulwick’s article ‘Sydney’s rail station upgrade program passes halfway mark’ in SMH, 29/12/17 (http://bit.ly/2GPC0JO)
Information about urbanisation in China comes from Zhang Xing Quan’s ‘Urbanisation in China’ in Urban Studies 20:1, 1991, pp.41–51 and Karen C. Seto’s ‘What Should We Understand About Urbanisation in China’ in Yale Insights, 1/11/13. The discussion of migrant workers draws on Li Xueshi’s ‘China’s Cities are Making Migrant Workers Profoundly Lonely’ in Sixth Tone, 7/3/18 (https://bit.ly/2oYGFmb); and George Knowles’ ‘Life for China’s Migrant Workers’ in South China Morning Post 27/5/16 (https://bit.ly/2jlBGIV). The discussion of Lunar New Year migrations draws on Niall McCarthy’s ‘Chinese New Year: The World’s Largest Human Migration’ in Forbes 14/2/18 (https://bit.ly/2HJ0l4U). The story about the relocated village in Hubei is Zhao Shuting’s ‘Hubei Family Reflects on Generations of Relocations’ from Sixth Tone 30/3/18 (https://bit.ly/2KtOeKE); and the title of Li Bai’s poem is usually translated as ‘Quiet Night Thought’ or ‘Thoughts on a Still Night.’ Information about leftover women comes from Roseann Lake’s Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower, (W.W. Norton, 2018).
Much as That Dog Goes
This essay discusses Stephanie Vaughn’s ‘Dog Heaven’ from Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog (Heinemann, 1990), Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay (Picador, 2009) and Denise Levertov’s ‘Overland to the Islands’ from Overland to the Islands (J Williams Press, 1958); it also quotes Michelle de Kretser’s The Life to Come (Allen and Unwin, 2017).
Information about the history of pets comes from Juliana Schiesari’s Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies and Desire in Four Modern Writers (University of California Press, 2012) and James Serpell’s In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-Animal Relationships (Cambridge UP, 1996); and information about dog cognition from Darcy F. Morey’s Dogs: Domestication and the Development of a Social Bond (Cambridge UP, 2010) and Gregory Berns’ What It’s Like to Be a Dog and Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience (Basic Books, 2017).