 His combination of rurality with religious and apocalyptic themes is reminiscent of the Southern gothic genre.His major poetic influences include Robert Adamson, Les Murray, Arthur Rimbaud, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Antonin Artaud, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Dante, Frank Stanford, and Matsuo Basho, among others.He is also heavily inspired by the work of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, and by various folk, country and blues musicians.