Catherine Eisner

Sunday, 17 May 2026

The Light that Failed: Counterviews. Polemical Art, Illusion and Disillusion. Blunt versus Solzhenitsyn.

Anthony Blunt – tarnished knight of the realm, professed communist, and Keeper of the Queen’s Pictures – was unequivocal when a young man ...

Thursday, 26 March 2026

We are asked, ‘What is the matter?’ (Some sixty-something years later can the UK’s 2026 National Year of Reading propose answers?)

He waited while she closed the front door, then followed her into the sitting-room, the entrance to which was immediately on the right. The ...

Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Floreat amor ♡ Take heart

Hold my hand as if you love me, stupid. So where is that pride you have too much of ? No stars lose their shine despite what you did and fl...

Saturday, 15 November 2025

Skin Job. A Self-Narrative Assignment.

Just last week I was astonished to learn a fiction of mine from my ‘Fugitive Pieces’ file had surfaced at my publishers ( Salt ). Its title?...

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

FOUND! Wisdom Spun in Gossamer: Spiderivable Radials

My young nephew, Ernst Bienek , is torn between his passion for arachnids and his fanatical devotio...

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Found! Poésie trouvée (Part 6).

I have touched upon, in earlier posts, the peculiar jolt one is dealt when a specimen of poésie trouvée is stumbled upon. So it wa...

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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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