Catherine Eisner

Friday, 27 October 2023

Fragment: Hoffmann’s Pictogram 1821

I suppose it’s not really so surprising to stumble upon a textual novelty such as Hoffmann’s, as early as 1821 previsioning Oulipian ‘constr...

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...

Friday, 8 September 2023

Tyro Poets? Eton v Marlborough? (Finishing School for Versifiers, Pt.7.) Juvenilia

Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who was not, in the Thirties, Red? (G...

Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Just Before Nine.

Just before nine, the cell door opened and a voice warned, ‘It’s time!’ His arms were pinioned. Outside ...

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...

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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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