Yosuke Tanaka was born in Tokyo in 1969 and made his debut as a poet in the prestigious literary magazine Eureka at the age of 19. So far, he has published two poetry books, A Day When the Mountains are Visible in 1999, and Sweet Ultramarine Dreams in 2008. Though he is certainly not prolific, the poems he has written over the past twenty years are rich in stylistic diversity and unique in his sense of humour, sensitivity to nature and awareness of the legacy of the Japanese literary tradition. Yosuke Tanaka has emerged as the new poetic sensitivity in Japan, and is sure to remain one of the most important figures in 21st-century Japanese poetry.