# Daniel Scott Tysdal

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**Daniel Scott Tysdal** (born May 26, 1978) is a Canadian [poet](/source/Poet) and [film director](/source/Film_director) whose work approaches the [lyric](/source/Lyric_poetry) mode with an experimental spirit. In June 2007, Tysdal received the [ReLit Award](/source/ReLit_Award) for Poetry.

Tysdal was born in [Moose Jaw](/source/Moose_Jaw), [Saskatchewan](/source/Saskatchewan), and was raised on a [farm](/source/Farm). He received a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) Honor from the [University of Regina](/source/University_of_Regina) in 2003, a [Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts) in English from [Acadia University](/source/Acadia_University) in 2006, and a [Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts) in Creative Writing from [The University of Toronto](/source/The_University_of_Toronto) in 2008.[citation needed] He currently lives in [Toronto](/source/Toronto) and is a lecturer in creative writing at The [University of Toronto Scarborough](/source/University_of_Toronto_Scarborough).[citation needed]

## 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](/source/John_V._Hicks) Manuscript Award and the 2006 [Anne Szumigalski](/source/Anne_Szumigalski) Award ([Saskatchewan Book Award](/source/Saskatchewan_Book_Award) for Best Book of Poetry). *Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough* was also [shortlisted](/source/Shortlisted) for the 2006 Brenda MacDonald Riches Award (Saskatchewan Book Award for Best First Book), and won the 2007 [ReLit Award](/source/ReLit_Award). Tysdal's poem, "An Experiment in Form," received honourable mention in the 2003 [National Magazine Awards](/source/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](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Company)) 2005 [National Poetry Face-Off](/source/National_Poetry_Face-Off).

Tysdal's poetry, Canadian writer [Jon Paul Fiorentino](/source/Jon_Paul_Fiorentino) writes, "is an exhilarating mix of [pop culture](/source/Popular_culture), [philosophy](/source/Philosophy), [mythology](/source/Mythology), and [visual art](/source/Visual_art)."[1] His work investigates [traditional](/source/Traditional) poetic themes -loss and redemption, selfhood and community— through a diverse range of contemporary experiences, mediums and [artefacts](/source/Artifact_(archaeology)). *Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough* begins with "[Zombies](/source/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](/source/Al_Jaffee)’s [MAD Magazine](/source/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](/source/Traditional) lyric or [elegy](/source/Elegy), or dealing with subjects as diverse as [bukkake](/source/Bukkake_(sex_act)) and [Walter Benjamin](/source/Walter_Benjamin), Tysdal "gets us to rethink what constitutes a poetic text."[2] [George Elliot Clarke](/source/George_Elliot_Clarke) observes, "for all their high-minded, critical [jouissance](/source/Jouissance), the lyrics are lively with accessible [puns](/source/Pun), jokes, games, and [satire](/source/Satire)."[3]

In the book, Tysdal's work is also characterized by elements of [concrete poetry](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Suicide) posted on the [World Wide Web](/source/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] A poem from that collection, "The Big List," was chosen as one of the fifty best Canadian poems published in Canadian literary journals in 2010 and appears in the anthology *The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011* edited by [Priscila Uppal](/source/Priscila_Uppal) and Molly Peacock.[7]

### Fiction

Tysdal has also received recognition for his work in short fiction. In 2008, Tysdal's [short story](/source/Short_story) "What is Missing" [8] received first place in the [Eye Weekly](/source/Eye_Weekly) Short Story Contest.[9] His fiction has also appeared in online literary magazines including [Joyland: A hub for short fiction](/source/Joyland:_A_hub_for_short_fiction) (2012) and [The Puritan](/source/The_Puritan) (2011).

His first full-length short story collection, *Waveforms and Doom Scrolls*, was published in 2021.[10] The book was shortlisted for the [ReLit Award](/source/ReLit_Award) for short fiction in 2022.[11]

## Bibliography

### Poetry

- *Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method* (2006); [Coteau Books](/source/Coteau_Books)
- *The Mourner's Book of Albums* (2010); [Tightrope Books](/source/Tightrope_Books)
- *Fauxccasional Poems* (2015); icehouse poetry

### Fiction and photography

- *Dear Adolf* (2012); [Steel Bananas](/source/Steel_Bananas)

### Textbooks

- *The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems* (2013); [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) Canada

### Anthologies

- "The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011", eds. [Priscila Uppal](/source/Priscila_Uppal) and [Molly Peacock](/source/Molly_Peacock) (2011); [Tightrope Books](/source/Tightrope_Books)
- *Gulch: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose* eds. Karen Correia Da Silva, Sarah Beaudin, and Curran Folkers (2009); [Tightrope Books](/source/Tightrope_Books)
- *Boredom Fighters: A Collection of Graphic Poems* eds. Jake Kennedy and Paola Paoletto (2008); [Tightrope Books](/source/Tightrope_Books)
- *Fast Forward: New Saskatchewan Poets* eds. Barbara Klar and Paul Wilson (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

1. ["Home"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160425161758/http://coteaubooks.com/index.php?p=Author&authorid=77). Coteau Books. Archived from [the original](http://coteaubooks.com/index.php?p=Author&authorid=77) on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-11.

1. Maria Scala (May 24, 2007). ["Review of *Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method* by Daniel Scott Tysdal"](http://poetryreviews.ca/2007/05/24/predicting-the-next-big-advertising-breakthrough-using-a-potentially-dangerous-method-by-daniel-scott-tysdal/). *poetryreviews.ca*. Shadow Box Creative Media. [Archived](https://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/) 2008-01-14 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2010-07-05.

1. ["The 2004 John V. Hicks Manuscript Awards"](http://www.skwriter.com/hicks/archive.html). Saskatchewan Writers Guild. 2004. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20050223094429/http://www.skwriter.com/hicks/archive.html) 2005-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2010-07-05.

1. Anna Mioduchowska (2007). ["Review of *Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method* by Daniel Scott Tysdal"](http://www.prairiefire.ca/reviews/tysdal_advertising.html). [Prairie Fire](/source/Prairie_Fire_(magazine)). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070731043711/http://www.prairiefire.ca/reviews/tysdal_advertising.html) 2007-07-31 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2010-07-05.

1. Tim Conley (Summer 2007). ["Seeing Reproductions"](http://www.canlit.ca/reviews.php?id=13682). *[Canadian Literature](/source/Canadian_Literature_(journal))*. '***(193): 144–146. Retrieved 2010-07-05.******[dead link]***

1. Daniel Scott Tysdal (2010). *The Mouner's Book of Albums*. Tightrope Books. ISBN 9781926639208.

1. ["The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011"](http://tightropebooks.com/the-best-canadian-poetry-in-english-2011/). Tightrope Books. Retrieved 2016-04-11.

1. Daniel Scott Tysdal (January 31, 2008). ["What Is Missing"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110522160608/http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/books/article/16563). [Eye Weekly](/source/Eye_Weekly) Newspapers Ltd. Archived from [the original](http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/books/article/16563) on May 22, 2011. Retrieved 2010-07-05.

1. Marc Weisblott (February 6, 2008). ["Emerging Writers Night"](http://www.eyeweekly.com/scrollingeye/article/17316). *Scrolling Eye*. [Eye Weekly](/source/Eye_Weekly) Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 2010-07-05.[dead link]

1. [Brett Josef Grubisic](/source/Brett_Josef_Grubisic), ["‘Bloody, clever and a touch blackhearted,’ a debut fiction collection from Edmonton’s Daniel Scott Tysdal grips like a pit bull"](https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/reviews/2021/10/28/bloody-clever-and-a-touch-blackhearted-a-debut-fiction-collection-from-edmontons-daniel-scott-tysdal-grips-like-a-pit-bull.html). *[Toronto Star](/source/Toronto_Star)*, October 28, 2021.

1. ["Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards"](https://www.cbc.ca/books/short-fiction-from-norma-dunning-david-huebert-alix-ohlin-among-works-shortlisted-for-2022-relit-awards-1.6446211). [CBC Books](/source/CBC_Books), May 9, 2022.

## External links

- [Daniel Scott Tysdal's blog](https://www.danielscotttysdal.blogspot.com/)
- ["What Is Missing"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110522160608/http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/books/article/16563) Tysdal's first-place winning entry for the 2008 [Eye Weekly](/source/Eye_Weekly) Short Story Contest.
- Review by Fred Johnston (2006). ["Review"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160402105314/http://www.vallummag.com/Review-Tysdal.html). *Vallum Magazine*. Vallum Society for Arts & Letters Education. Archived from [the original](http://www.vallummag.com/Review-Tysdal.html) on 2016-04-02. Retrieved 2010-07-05.

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