Jonathan Steffen’s writing has appeared in the following publications.

Poetry
Translations
Short Stories

Poetry
And Doors Will Open, Acumen, Summer 1991

Apprentice and Master*, Acumen, October 1994

The Falcon to the Falconer*, The Spectator, 19 September 1992 - Reprinted in Poem for the Day: 366 Poems, Old and New, Worth Learning by Heart, Ed. Nicholas Albery, Sinclair-Stevenson 1994; reprinted Chatto & Windus 2000 and 2001

German Hunting Party, The New Statesman, 27 March 1987

The Gingko and the Sycamore*, The Spectator, 20 November 1993

The Great Days of the Railway, The Good Society Review Nos. 7-8, 1994

Hopeless Love, Acumen, May 2007

I am the Wind that Stirs the Thoughts of Sails*, The Spectator, 1 January 1994

Icons, Ripley Association Open Poetry Competition Anthology, 1994

In the Chapel of Rest, Acumen, May 2007

The Language of the Hart and Turtle-Dove, Outposts Poetry Quarterly, Summer/Autumn 1993

The Moving Hand, The Good Society Review Nos. 7-8, 1994

My Love, Let’s Be Like Chimpanzees, A Laugh a Stanza, Ed. Paul Rance, Peace & Freedom Press, 1995

Pietà, London Magazine, October/November, 2004

The Soldier and the Soldier’s Son, London Magazine, June 1986

St. Francis in the Slaughter-House*, Resurgence, January/February 1995

Show Horses, BABEL IX, Autumn 1995

Swotty, The Good Society Review Nos. 7-8, 1994

Unfinished Cathedrals, BABEL IX, Autumn 1995

Timing, Outposts Poetry Quarterly, Spring 1992

What did you do in the War, Daddy? Acumen, May 2007

When I Compare Myself with Famous Men, New Statesman & Society, 11 September 1992

Wounded, BABEL XIII, November 2003

* reprinted in Micropress, Australia
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Translations
After Arkadia (Le tramway d’osier and Si belles et fraîches étaient les roses by Nella Bielski), Viking/Penguin 1991 [translation in collaboration with John Berger]

Alone (Vereinsamt by Friedrich Nietzsche) Babel VIII, Summer 1994

Approaching Blindness (Die Erblindende by Rainer Maria Rilke) Outposts Poetry Quarterly, Issue 180/181, Summer 1995

Autumn Day (Herbsttag by Rainer Maria Rilke) Orbis International Poetry Magazine, Summer/Autumn 1993

Last Evening (Letzter Abend by Rainer Maria Rilke) Vigil 10, 1996

Orchids; Plants of Extremes, Superlatives and Contrasts Dr K. Senghas Paul Parey Verlag, Berlin 1993 (bilingual German/English edition)

Parting (Abschied by Mascha Kaléko) BABEL IX, Autumn 1995

Parting (Abschied by Rainer Maria Rilke) BABEL VIII, Summer 1994

To the red wine stains on the tablecloth in a French restaurant (1936) (An die Rotweinflecken auf dem Tischtuch in einem franzözischen Restaurant [1936] by Carl Zuckmayer) Vigil 10, 1996
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Short Stories
At Breakfast, Takahe Issue 22, Winter 1995

Blitz, Story Cellar Issue 6, Spring 1996

Carpe Diem, Signals, Ed. Alan Ross, Constable 1991

Cleopatra, Heidelberg Review, Summer/Fall 1994

Elcazir the Silent, Margin, Summer 1987

Formica, Firebird 1, Ed. T.J. Binding Penguin Books, 1982

The Gas Cooker, Image, July/August 1994

German in 24 Hours, Heidelberg Review Number 3, Summer 1996

The Hanging Man, Panurge Number 22, 1995

Helen of Sparta, Helen of Troy, Takahe Issue 26, Spring 1996

The History of Dr Deane, London Magazine, April/May 1995

Home and Dry, The Good Society Review, April 1994

I See A Flower, Heidelberg Review Number 4, Winter 1996/97

In Seville, Firebird 4, Ed. Robin Robertson Penguin Books, 1985

Maidenhead and Manhead, New Edinburgh Review, August 1981 - Reprinted in New Edinburgh Anthology, Ed. James Campbell, Polygon Books 1982

Meeting the Majors, P.E.N. New Fiction II, Ed. Allan Massie Quartet Books 1987

Old Boy Thierack, The London Magazine, April 2002

The Panama Hat, The London Magazine, August/September 1993

The Room, New Edinburgh Review, August 1980

The Search for the Great Albino, Heidelberg Review Number 2, Fall 1995

The Story of Icarus, Takahe Issue 21, Summer 1994

Tales of Empire and Amnesia, London Magazine, March 1984

Your Father’s Hair, Signals 3, London Magazine Editions 2001
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Reviews and Articles
A Good Read, Pinboard, Heidelberg, February 1998

Broken Worlds (W.G Sebald) London Magazine, June/July 1998

Examined Lives (Christopher Hamilton) London Magazine 2002

Germany: Riding the Tram London Magazine March 1985

Get Your Boots On (Bruce Chatwin) Pinboard, Heidelberg, April 1998

Hedgehog Stops Play (Rob Eastaway) Pinboard, Heidelberg, May 1998

How to Stop Reading and Start Living (Alain de Botton) Pinboard, Heidelberg, March 1998

Germany and the Germans (John Ardagh) London Magazine

No New Thing Under the Sun (Stephen Bloom) Pinboard, Heidelberg July 1998

Too Late (Norman Levine et al.) New Statesman, 15 February 1980

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