TTQ's Toronto Poets 5 Questions Series: Priscila Uppal
Interviewed by Darryl Salach (The Toronto Quarterly)
The Toronto Poets – 5 Questions Series is a new series initiated by The Toronto Quarterly that is geared to providing the talented poets living and writing in the city of Toronto with a bit of a broader platform in which to explain who they are as poets and what they're writing about these days. The hope is to provide this information to not only lovers of poetry residing in the city but to the casual reader of poetry who might not be aware of some of the names being featured in the five questions series. Ultimately, the hope of this series is to inform Torontonians that poetry is indeed vibrant, alive and kicking ass in our city.
Priscila Uppal is a Toronto poet, fiction writer and York University professor. Among her publications are eight collections of poetry, most recently, Ontological Necessities (2006; shortlisted for the $50,000 Griffin Poetry Prize), Traumatology (Exile Editions, 2010), Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010 (Bloodaxe Books, U.K.) and Winter Sport: Poems (Mansfield Press, 2010).