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".
Jouni Inkala's initial work, "The Edge of It," won the J. H. Erkko Award in 1992. Following his first poetry collection, the poet has undergone significant changes in his views, which are reflected in his poetic language.