{"id":31699,"date":"2010-10-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/researchdev\/2010\/10\/14\/professor-priscila-uppal-launches-sports-poems-collection-written-during-2010-vancouver-olympics-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:43:01","slug":"professor-priscila-uppal-launches-sports-poems-collection-written-during-2010-vancouver-olympics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/2010\/10\/14\/professor-priscila-uppal-launches-sports-poems-collection-written-during-2010-vancouver-olympics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Priscila Uppal launches sports poems collection written during 2010 Vancouver Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20101006\/\/PriscilaUppalcover-winter-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"250\" height=\"418\" align=\"right\" \/>Sports and poetry aren\u2019t usually thought of as intertwining, but York English Professor <a title=\"Uppal's Website\" href=\"http:\/\/priscilauppal.ca\/\">Priscila Uppal<\/a> is almost as much a sports fan as she is a poet. Given that she was the Canadian Athletes Now Fund (CANFund) poet-in-residence\u00a0during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Games, it\u2019s not surprising that her poems have made their way into an forthcoming book.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mansfield Press listing of the title\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mansfieldpress.net\/Titles\/winter_sport.html\"><em>Winter Sport: Poems<\/em><\/a>, a collection of over 50 poems, will launch Tuesday, October 19, at 7:30 pm, at The Boat, 158 Augusta Ave. in Toronto\u2019s Kensington Market. It is also the 10th anniversary launch party for Mansfield Press. All royalties from the sale of\u00a0Uppal's book will go to help support athletes through <span><a href=\"http:\/\/canadianathletesnow.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CAN Fund<\/a><\/span>, which helped fund about 80 per cent of the athletes at the Games.<\/p>\n<p>The book contains haikus and other poems about the Olympic athletes and their beloved sports \u2013 whether curling, skeleton, skiing or hockey \u2013\u00a0and includes some poems Uppal wrote when she took in the Arctic Games, in between the Olympics and the Paralympics. It\u2019s being hailed as a mingling of physical and verbal acrobatics and a dazzling competition of risky play, inventive movements and daring heights.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20101006\/PriscilaUppalOlympictorch.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"250\" height=\"291\" align=\"left\" \/>Left:<\/strong> Priscila Uppal embracing the Olympic torch as the Canadian Athletes Now Fund poet-in-residence. Photo by Chistopher Doda<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo much about poetry is having surprising language and using it in unique ways,\u201d says <span><a href=\"http:\/\/priscilauppal.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uppal<\/a><\/span> (BA Hons. \u201997, PhD \u201904).\u00a0 Watching Olympic athletes compete and marvelling over the strange terms attached to each sport \u2013 what Uppal calls athletic language full of metaphors and symbols \u2013\u00a0gave her plenty of inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>She\u00a0says the poems are accessible and amusing, and were also fun to write. <em>Winter Sport: Poems<\/em> would be of interest to sports lovers, Olympics lovers, poetry lovers, and\u00a0English and physical education teachers, as well as young reluctant readers, she says. CBC Radio featured many of her poems over the course of the Games after fans called in requesting more, as did CAN Fund and the athletes themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\"While some people were skeptical about elite athletes responding to poetry,\" Uppal admits, \"the Olympians ended up being one of my most welcoming audiences ever. Every day they asked for more copies of poems and looked forward to the performances. The summer Olympians have encouraged me to take up my post in 2012 in London to write the companion volume, <em>Summer Sport: Poems<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20101006\/\/PriscilaUppalpoetatspeedska.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"350\" height=\"269\" align=\"right\" \/>Right:<\/strong> Priscila Uppal dons her own team shirt while watching speedskating at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. Photo by Chistopher Doda<\/p>\n<p>Gil Adamson, author of <em>The Outlander<\/em> and <em>Ashland<\/em>, says \u201cFrom one of Canada\u2019s most dynamic poets come sports poems that are playful, funny, and full of trick moves. Uppal\u2019s wordplay is as muscular as the athletes she celebrates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Uppal\u2019s new book, the evening will launch <em>Imagining Toronto<\/em> by <a title=\"Amy Lavender Harris homepage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/alharris\/\">Amy Lavender Harris<\/a>, a York geography faculty member in the Faculty of Liberal Arts &amp; Professional Studies; <em>Goodbye, Ukulele<\/em> by Leigh Nash (BA Hons. \u201904), a former student of Uppal\u2019s; <em>At the Gates of the Theme Park<\/em> by Peter Norman; and <em>Stray Dog Embassy<\/em> by Natasha Nuhanovic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20101006\/\/PriscilaUppalOlympicsChrist.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"127\" height=\"145\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>Left: <\/strong>Priscila Uppal has a Canadian moment. Photo by Chistopher Doda<\/p>\n<p>Uppal's books include <em><a title=\"Traumatology on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Traumatology-Priscila-Uppal\/dp\/155096139X\/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269264503&amp;sr=1-7\">Traumatology<\/a><\/em> which <a title=\"Uppal launches Traumatology poetry collection\" href=\"http:\/\/research.news.yorku.ca\/2010\/03\/22\/york-professor-launches-poetry-collection-on-health-and-pop-culture\/\">launched earlier this year<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffinpoetryprize.com\/shortlist_2007.php?t=3\"><em>Ontological   Necessities<\/em><\/a> (which was shortlisted for the $50,000 Griffin Poetry Prize), <a href=\"http:\/\/priscilauppal.ca\/books\/confessions-of-a-fertility-expert\/\"><em>Confessions of a Fertility Expert<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Pretending-Die-Priscilla-U-Uppa\/dp\/1550965190\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269264443&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>Pretending to Die<\/em><\/a>, and of the novels <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385659932\"><em>To   Whom It May Concern<\/em><\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385658058\">The   Divine Economy of Salvation<\/a>. <\/em>She is the editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Exile-Book-Canadian-Sports-Stories\/dp\/155096125X\"><em>The   Exile Book of Canadian<\/em> <em>Sports Stories<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/20-Canadian-Poets-Take-World\/dp\/1550961225\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269264471&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>The Exile Book of Poetry in Translation: 20 Canadian Poets Take on  the World<\/em><\/a> and the author of <a title=\"Amazon listing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Are-What-Mourn-Contemporary-English-Canadian\/dp\/0773534563\"><em>We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to order the book, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mansfieldpress.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Mansfield Press<\/span><\/a> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chapters.indigo<\/a><\/span> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a> websites.<\/p>\n<p>To read a few of Uppal\u2019s sports poems, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianathletesnow.ca\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=375&amp;Itemid=22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>CAN Fund<\/span><\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Republished <\/em><em><em>c<\/em>ourtesy of <\/em><em><em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\">YFile<\/a><\/em> \u2013 York University\u2019s   daily e-bulletin.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports and poetry aren\u2019t usually thought of as intertwining, but York English Professor Priscila Uppal is almost as much a sports fan as she is a poet. 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