On September 5, Priscila Uppal passed at the age of 43. Uppal was a prolific poet, author, playwright, and beloved professor. She published 10 collections of poetry, two novels, a play, a memoir, and a short story collection. She was also an editor of several anthologies and poetry collections. Uppal was once dubbed the \u201cCanada\u2019s coolest poet\u201d by Time Out London.<\/p>\n
Priscila Uppal was scheduled to join us The Word On The Street Toronto this year as a guest, and her absence will be felt by all of us. As we mourn her passing, we honour and celebrate the contribution that Priscila Uppal made to Canadian Literature.<\/p>\n
Our team would like to extend our sincere condolences to the friends, family, and readers of Uppal. She had a tremendous impact on her community and in the Canadian literary landscape; an impact that is not common or usual, but extraordinary.<\/p>\n
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Tributes<\/b><\/p>\n
From Quill and Quire<\/a> On September 5, Priscila Uppal passed at the age of 43. Uppal was a prolific poet, author, playwright, and beloved professor. She published 10 collections of poetry, two novels, a play, a memoir, and a short story collection. She was also an editor of several anthologies and poetry collections. Uppal was once dubbed the \u201cCanada\u2019s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":12023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12024,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12022\/revisions\/12024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrom CBC Books<\/a>
\nFrom The Toronto Star<\/a>
\nFrom The Teal Mango<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"