Erica Wagner
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Collected and uncollected published and broadcast works

Stories

‘Jeremiah’ in Going Down Swinging, issue 10/11, 1990 (Australia)
‘The Great Leonardo’ in Critical Quarterly, Vol 34, no 3, autumn 1992
‘The Great Leonardo’ in Classwork: The Best of Contemporary Short Fiction edited by Malcolm Bradbury, Sceptre, 1995
‘Mysteries of the Ancients’ in Back Rubs edited by Joanna Rosenthall and others, Serpent’s Tail, 1996
‘Pyramid’ in The Catch, edited by Carole Buchan, Serpent’s Tail, 1997
‘First’ in The Ex-Files, edited by Nicholas Royle, Quartet, 1998
‘Haircut’ in Cheatin’ Heart, edited by Kim Longinotto and Joanna Rosenthall, Serpent’s Tail, 1998
‘The Taste of Apricots’ in The Time Out Book of Paris Short Stories, edited by Nicholas Royle, Penguin, 1999
‘Eileen Dunn’ in Shorts: New Writing from Granta Books, Granta, 1998
‘Spitfire’ in Rites of Spring: New Writing from London, 4th Estate, 2000
‘Miss Brooks’ in Shoe Fly Baby, edited by  Kate Pullinger (Bloomsbury, 2004)
‘Three Women, and Something Else’ in Journey to the Sea edited by Sarah Brown, Ebury Press, 2005

Essays

New introduction to The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, Vintage Classics, 2000
Sylvia Plath: Interrupted Lives edited by Andrew Motion, National Portrait Gallery, 2004
‘The Great Bridge’ in The Reader 19, Autumn, 2005

Poetry

‘Glass’ in New Hope International, Vol 14, no. 3, 1990
‘The Arrow’ in The TLS, March 4, 2005
‘The Woman Who Was Afraid of Fire’ in New Writing 10, edited by Penelope Lively and George Szirtes, Picador, 2001
‘Fra Angelico’s Annunciation’, ‘The Gift’, ‘Lessons’, ‘The Long Game’ in PNReview 157, May – June 2004
‘how we have come to look like trees’, ‘the island’ in PNReview 168, March – April 2006
‘Picnic’s Over’ in The TLS, September 29, 2006

Translations

Gravity
Der Astronom
, translated by Helmut Splinter (Goldman, Germany, 2000)

Ariel’s Gift
Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes
, translated by Tomasz Kunz (Wydawnictwo Literackie, Poland, 2004)
Sylvia e Ted, translated by Giorgia Sensi (La Tartaruga edizioni, Italy, 2004)

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4

‘In Verona’ read by Juliet Prew, Verdi Centenary Stories (2001)
‘The Bends’ read by Saira Todd (1997)
‘Please Don’t’ read by Saira Todd (1997)
‘Cecile’ read by Jonathan Keeble, Cartier-Bresson: Europeans (1998)
from Gravity: ‘Jamie’, ‘Stealing’ and ‘The Great Leonardo’, read by Nigel Anthony and Liza Ross (1997)
‘Emily’s Bridge’ read by Lorelei King (The Watershed Partnership, 2000)
‘Talking to Strangers’, part of On Stage at Cheltenham (2002)
‘Nine Boys’ read by Fiona Shaw (The Watershed Partnership, 2006)