{"product_id":"the-ej-pratt-lectures-1968-2025-9781778530678","title":"The E.J. Pratt Lectures, 1968-2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCompiling more than fifty years of the best poetic insights from the renowned series, a selection of the E.J. Pratt Lectures are collected together for the first time in this commemorative edition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor more than fifty years, Memorial University's E. J. Pratt Lecture Series has invited eminent critics and artists to St. John's, Newfoundland, to speak on the topics that lie at the heart of their work. This special edition, published to coincide with Memorial's 100\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e anniversary, gathers a selection of the Lectures, beginning with the one that inaugurated the series in 1968, Northrop Frye's \"Silence in the Sea.\" George Elliott Clarke, Stan Dragland, Seamus Heaney, and Ursula K. Le Guin are among the E. J. Pratt Laureates represented in the volume, which culminates with Madeleine Thien's 2025 Lecture. An album reflecting a changing discipline, the volume is filled with a half-century of luminous writing and trenchant insights into poetry and poetics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Breakwater Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781778530678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs","brand":"Andrew Loman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197250367669,"sku":"9781778530678","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0922b418-77dc-478a-8883-e2a6d4a4c90d.jpg?v=1769622773","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ej-pratt-lectures-1968-2025-9781778530678","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}