Catherine Eisner

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Thursday, 31 October 2024

Now You See It Now You Don’t

‘ Battleship grey! Inconspicuous? Take my word for it,’ declared our camouflage u...

Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Vignette 2 Twenty-five words.

No sooner had he performed the Ritual of the Word than an Imperial Edict expunged the Ritual Word. The Ritual Word was never spoken again. ...

Sunday, 11 August 2024

Harvest.

Hope lives on air. The empty hay barn, stacked with raw sky. . Photo credit: RH Dengate / 1960's Barn / CC BY-SA 2.0 See a...

Friday, 15 December 2023

Suddenly I Heard Someone Say

The interceding voice is known to you from literature; a stranger’s voice who speaks offsta...

Monday, 16 October 2023

A Defence

Court Report • Defendant: A man I thought I knew came round the corner. Prosecutor: Describe this man. Defendant: He searches for work. He h...

Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Strewthisms : A Little Dictionary of English Exclamations and Curses as Religious Euphemisms

Extraordinarily enough, this year, I realise, marks twenty years since the first submission of my ‘Strewthisms’ proposal to Penguin Referenc...

Sunday, 9 July 2023

A Ready Answer

‘One night I saw him standing naked at his bedroom window. Between his thighs hung the dark semblance of a hank of knotted rope. Later, I ...

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About Me

Catherine Isolde Eisner: Author of Sister Morphine, Salt Publishing 2008. Published also by Ambit, MsLexia, Stand, Strange Attractor journal and by Arts Council Poetry Collection website overseen by London’s South Bank Centre. Published 2011, Listen Close to Me: Hidden Lives of Love, Madness, Murder, Loss and Deception (Salt Modern Fiction). Published 2014, A Bad Case and Other Adventures of Disturbed Minds (Salt Modern Fiction).

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