“The poetry of Elena Katishonok is characterized by amazing combinations. A strange juxtaposition of everyday details, fairy-tale motifs, theatrical images, and children's folklore. A combination of whimsical associativity and strict architectonics of verse, a precise eye. And - what is most valuable - the restrained intonation, slightly seasoned with irony, and the tragedy of the high lyricism. What is poetry if not a new “order of words”, born from what is known - what we have gone through, read and lived? The more valuable each of us has of our own life and reading experience, the more temptation there is in this new “order” - the new breath of poetry” (Olga Slavina)