Daniel Scott Tysdal

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Daniel Scott Tysdal
Daniel Scott Tysdal
Born	May 26, 1978 (1978-05-26) (age 30) Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Canada
Writing period	2006 - present
Genres	Poetry
Literary movement	Postmodern literature, elegiac tradition

Influences Robert Kroetsch, David Foster Wallace, Jason Voorhees, John Ashbery, Wallace Stevens, Robert Browning

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 and an M.A. from Acadia University (Nova Scotia) in 2006. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada.

1 Career and Awards
2 Bibliography
3 References
4 External links
- 4.1 Reviews of Daniel Scott Tysdal's Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method

[edit] Career and Awards

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, 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] However, George Elliot Clarke observes, “for all their high-minded, critical jouissance, the lyrics are lively with accessible puns, jokes, games, and satire.”^[3]

Tysdal’s work is also characterised 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]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Poetry

Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method (2006); Coteau Books

[edit] Anthologies

Fast Forward: New Saskatchewan Poets (2007); Hagios Press

[edit] 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.