Elizabeth Bishop: A Conversation with April Bernard

On Thursday, August 29, on the occasion of concluding our summer reading of Elizabeth Bishop with poet and critic April Bernard, we were delighted to host a virtual conversation with April and Book Post readers with our summer partner bookseller, Northshire Bookstore. Here’s a recording for those who couldn’t join us. Summer Reading will remain open on our site and we continue to welcome conversation in the comments! Thank you, Northshire Bookstore, for hosting this wonderful conversaation!

April Bernard is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The World Behind the World. She is also author of the novels Pirate Jenny and Miss Fuller. She has written for Book Post on Colette, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hilary Mantel, Patricia Highsmith, Wallace Stevens, Janet Malcolm, and Angela Carter, among others.

Ann Kjellberg (moderator) is the founding editor of Book Post.

We were joined by Anthony Domestico, whose reviews for Book Post can be found here, and whose interview with April in Commonweal on the occasion of the publishing of The World Behind the World can be found here.