2020 Pratt Lecture: Mary Dalton

The 2020 Pratt Lecture will be held at LSPU Hall on March 4. This year’s lecturer is Mary Dalton: founder of the Sparks Literary Festival, Poet Laureate of St. John’s, and author of many fine volumes of poetry.

Pratt Lecture 2020: Mary Dalton
8-10 p.m.
Wednesday, March 4
LSPU Hall

Dalton is the author of The Time of Icicles, Allowing the Light, Merrybegot, Red Ledger, and Hooking; she is the founder of the Sparks Literary Festival; she is professor emerita of Memorial University’s Department of English; and she is Poet Laureate of St. John’s. The Pratt Lecture is the oldest public lecture at Memorial University; recent Lecturers include Don McKay, Anne Carson, Dionne Brand, and George Elliott Clarke.

As part of the Pratt Lecture celebrations, there will be a public reading of Merrybegot, Dalton’s acclaimed celebration of the Newfoundland voice. This reading will take place the day before the Lecture, on Tuesday, March 3, at 8 p.m. in the Cox & Palmer Second Space.

Admission to both events is free.