Tone Škrjanec is certainly one of the most interesting poets nowadays in Slovenia, both from literary and sociological aspects, despite the fact he belongs to the generation of the 1970s while his first collections of poems were published in the 1990s, and from poetical aspect. Like his generational counterparts Iztok Osojnik and Jure Jakob, Škrjanec was predominantly influenced by American Beat poetry and through it by the poetry of the Far East whose influences on Škrjanec can be traced on the formal level and on the substantial plane. It is exactly this experience we can draw from his renowned focus on tiny details and events. Influence of the East in Škrjanec’s works is evident at the fundamental level – the level of ethical and poetical orientation. Unlike most of Slovenian (for that matter, European as well) poets of the twentieth century who in their works strive to become lords of the world or even distort it in accordance with the rule of so called dictatorship fantasy, Škrjanec primarily depicts the world. Or rather, his poetic credo is not “having” but “letting be”. Tone Škrjanec is surely one of the leading poets of his generation. In accordance with the above credo what we also need is to understand his basic poetical procedure – montage. Škrjanec does not reach for this particular technique in order to manipulate the world or the reader but in order to show tiny excerpts of time and occurrences and display them in their uniqueness, thus simultaneously in their distinctiveness from the rest, rendered in a poem of opposing moments and instances. Škrjanec’s poetry is thus a poetry of a vigilant observer, but also an observer capable of abstracting an obliging cognition from the observed both for himself, his poetry and his audience. Therefore it is not a surprise we find declarative verses in Škrjanec’s poetry – e.g. a verse from the poem A Hole in the Sky: “it needs to be written down for what comes today / is valid for tomorrow.” Ethics, sense for details and atmosphere in his poems and subtle application of montage technique are essential features of Škrjanec’s poetry.