Priscila Singh Uppal

1974—2018

, Canada’s coolest poet.

, her account of finding her long-lost mother online and travelling to Brazil to meet her. Mum is a film critic whose life is built around movies; Uppal structured the story in the same way: ten chapters, each named for a film her mother had seen a hundred or more times, or a film about Brazil or mothers and daughters. “It’s a very real way in which many of us attempt to understand the difficult people in our lives,” she told CBC in 2014. “We look at the role models in art.”