Catherine Eisner

Sunday, 7 January 2024

An Émigré Childhood. Opus 42. Southern England 1942.

There was a time when skies made shadows of those great wings that cursed our house a midday dark, where e...

Sunday, 31 December 2023

Her Left Shoe . . . E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Terrible Projectile of Semiotics

New Year’s Eve 2023 ‘Darkness had no effect upon my fancy . . .’ wrote Mary Shelley in Frankenstein , no doubt recalling the month in...

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...

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...

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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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