 Jouni Inkala encounters Anton Chekhov, Joseph Brodsky and Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, in his collection of poetry "Kirjoittamaton" which approaches its semi-fictional subjects with sharp twists and sarcastic asides.Jouni Inkala's first work Tässä sen reuna (The Edge of It) received the J. H. Erkko Award in 1992.After Inkala's first poem collection the poet has changed two or three times his attitudes strongly, and Inkala's readers have been able to see this in his "poetic grammar".