Biography:
Ermanno Spera is an artist born in Rome on 11 March 1967.
He is a poet and writer who invites the reader through wordplay into a more authentic and personal sense.
The texts express evocative messages and feelings that coexist in the individual and have universal significance.
Stylistically original poems with the presence of many evocative images.
Since 1999, he has been included with his poems in various national and international poetry collections and anthologies. He has also participated in numerous national and international literary competitions and was awarded the Literary Lifetime Achievement Award by the “Universum Academy Switzerland” in June 2023 in recognition of his valuable and extraordinary commitment in the cultural field and as a reward for his work in defending the values of peace and universal brotherhood.
Other national and international awards have been received.
In the 1990s, he was part of a group of poets who used to gather and sing their lyrics in pubs in Rome’s San Lorenzo district.
Ermanno Spera is also a painter and has participated with his works in numerous art exhibitions, both collective and personal, from 1998 to today.
A sunny, airy painting, his painting lives in a dream crowded with chimeras, winged horses, landscapes crowded with metaphysical characters. The attentive observer is able to grasp symbols on both things and animals, and these symbols serve man to be able to decipher the rebuses that life itself shows us every day.
Maria Mauro said of him that his verses are drops that fall into the depths of feelings and as they fall they pierce even the hardest rock and become crystal clear and limpid like the sky and open up into the dear purity of the eternal.
He is a poet who has no precise rules, free verse, unique in his style, and in his ars poetica one can truly find everything, from dreams to the crudest reality, when reading his texts it is as if one is taken by the hand on a journey where the destination is always different, probing every edge of life and the human soul.
