 Volume 78 - Number 1 - 2018 "Festschrift" pays tribute to his writing.In his poetry Brooks was initially significantly influenced by the T’ang Dynasty poets of Ancient China, the ‘deep image’ poets of the United States (Galway Kinnell, James Wright, Robert Bly), and the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, whom he met in Toronto in the late 1970s.His early fiction was influenced by the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and others, and the speculative fiction of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino.