- Daniel Scott Tysdal
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Daniel Scott Tysdal 
Daniel Scott TysdalBorn May 26, 1978
Moose Jaw, SaskatchewanOccupation Poet Nationality Canada Period 2006 - present Genres Poetry, fiction Literary movement
Postmodern literature, elegiac tradition
Daniel Scott Tysdal (born May 26, 1978) is a Canadian poet whose work approaches the lyric mode with an experimental spirit. In June 2007, Tysdal received the ReLit Award for Poetry.
Tysdal was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and was raised on a farm. He received a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Regina (Saskatchewan) in 2003, an M.A. (English) from Acadia University (Nova Scotia) in 2006, and an M.A. (English in the Field of Creative Writing) from The University of Toronto in 2008. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada and is a lecturer in creative writing at The University of Toronto Scarborough.
Contents
Career and Awards
Poetry
His first collection of poetry, Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method (2006), received the 2004 John V. Hicks Manuscript Award and the 2006 Anne Szumigalski Award (Saskatchewan Book Award for Best Book of Poetry). Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough was also shortlisted for the 2006 Brenda MacDonald Riches Award (Saskatchewan Book Award for Best First Book), and won the 2007 ReLit Award. Tysdal’s poem, “An Experiment in Form,” received honourable mention in the 2003 National Magazine Awards. His poem “T-Shirts or Toys: Crib Notes for a One-Year-Old Nephew” was a national finalist in the CBC’s (Canadian Broadcasting Company) 2005 National Poetry Face-Off.
Tysdal’s poetry, Canadian writer Jon Paul Fiorentino writes, “is an exhilarating mix of pop culture, philosophy, mythology, and visual art.” [1] His work investigates traditional poetic themes -loss and redemption, selfhood and community— through a diverse range of contemporary experiences, mediums and artefacts. Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough begins with “Zombies: A Catalogue of Their Return,” a modestly illustrated description of a zombie invasion, and ends with, “A><B,” a poem that works like one of Al Jaffee’s MAD Magazine “fold-ins”; to read the final line of the poem, readers must physically fold the page in thirds to discover it. Thus, whether writing a traditional lyric or elegy, or dealing with subjects as diverse as bukkake and Walter Benjamin, Tysdal “gets us to rethink what constitutes a poetic text.”[2] George Elliot Clarke observes, “for all their high-minded, critical jouissance, the lyrics are lively with accessible puns, jokes, games, and satire.”[3]
In the book, Tysdal’s work is also characterized by elements of concrete poetry and visual art. “One Way of Shuffling Is Ten Hours into Back-to-Back Sessions Going on Tilt,” a meditation on ideas of order and origin through a hand of Texas Hold 'Em, takes the visual form of a deck of cards. “How We Know We Are Being Addressed by the Man Who Shot Himself Online” works with the images taken from the digital footage of a suicide posted on the World Wide Web, an innovative poetic strategy praised by one reviewer as the book’s “most horrifying intermingling of text with visuals.”[4] But reviewer Tim Conley demurred, writing that the book, "has the pleasing shape of a catalogue but structurally smacks of one of those dead-end marketplace “squatter” sites encountered at a wrong turn on the web, offering catch-all links in categories (games, dating, cell phones, horoscopes, real estate, movies)..."[5]
Tysdal's second book of poetry,The Mourner's Book of Albums, was published by Tightrope Books in October 2010.[6]
Fiction
Tysdal has also received recognition for his work in short fiction. In 2008, Tysdal's short story "What is Missing" [7] received first place in the Eye Weekly Short Story Contest.[8] His fiction has also appeared in Canadian online literary magazine The Puritan (2011).
Bibliography
Poetry
- Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method (2006); Coteau Books
- The Mourner's Book of Albums (2010); Tightrope Books
Anthologies
- Gulch: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose (2009); Tightrope Books
- Boredom Fighters: A Collection of Graphic Poems (2008); Tightrope Books
- Fast Forward: New Saskatchewan Poets (2007); Hagios Press
Criticism
- Tysdal, Dan. "Inarticulation and the Figure of Enjoyment: Raymond Carver's Minimalism Meets David Foster Wallace's 'A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life.'" Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction 38.1 (2003), 66-83.
References
- ^ Dan Tysdal Author Page Coteau Books.
- ^ Maria Scala (May 24, 2007). "Review of Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method by Daniel Scott Tysdal". poetryreviews.ca. Shadow Box Creative Media. Archived from the original on 2008-01-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20080114033405/http://poetryreviews.ca/2007/05/24/predicting-the-next-big-advertising-breakthrough-using-a-potentially-dangerous-method-by-daniel-scott-tysdal/. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ "The 2004 John V. Hicks Manuscript Awards". Saskatchewan Writers Guild. 2004. Archived from the original on 2005-02-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20050223094429/http://www.skwriter.com/hicks/archive.html. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ Anna Mioduchowska (2007). "Review of Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method by Daniel Scott Tysdal". Prairie Fire (magazine). Archived from the original on 2007-07-31. http://web.archive.org/web/20070731043711/http://www.prairiefire.ca/reviews/tysdal_advertising.html. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ Tim Conley (Summer 2007). "Seeing Reproductions". Canadian Literature (193): 144–146. http://www.canlit.ca/reviews.php?id=13682. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ The Mourner's Book of Albums at Amazon.ca
- ^ Daniel Scott Tysdal (January 31, 2008). "What Is Missing". Eye Weekly Newspapers Ltd.. http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/books/article/16563. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ Marc Weisblott (February 6, 2008). "Emerging Writers Night". Scrolling Eye. Eye Weekly Newspapers Ltd.. http://www.eyeweekly.com/scrollingeye/article/17316. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
External links
- Daniel Scott Tysdal's blog
- "What Is Missing" Tysdal's first-place winning entry for the 2008 Eye Weekly Short Story Contest.
Other Reviews of Daniel Scott Tysdal's Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method
- Review by Fred Johnston (2006). "Review". Vallum Magazine. Vallum Society for Arts & Letters Education. http://www.vallummag.com/Review-Tysdal.html. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
Categories:- Canadian poets
- 1978 births
- Living people
- People from Moose Jaw
- Writers from Saskatchewan
- University of Toronto faculty
- Canadian people of Norwegian descent
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