The Palazzi Community Center put on a book presentation for sensibile alle minuscole by Enea Roversi on the 17^th of June. Bridging students and the community, people of all ages turned up to hear about Enea Roversi’s poems. Many students were in attendance for their class work, including marketing, photography and Italian students, providing a dynamic learning space for the students and nurtured their talents.

During the presentation, Enea Roversi would answer questions from his friend Vincenzo and read his poetry. I used speech to text for translation, but before I could read his words in English his Italian grabbed my ears. He spoke eloquently and confidently with no trace of nerves. He was in his element talking about his passion, his love for poetry and sincerity shone through his readings. Even though I did not fully understand what he was saying, his voice and demeanour held my attention.

“Poetry once it is written in belongs to people who read it, not the poet but not the public.”

When I eventually got the translation, I was able to get a clearer idea of his poems. Whilst the poems themselves were moving, the questions he was asking were more important, highlighting that there are much bigger things in the world we need to be worried about.

When Enea Roversi approached for the interview, he was more energetic than before due to the lively reading. He was able to speak comfortably in English but switched to Italian for harder questions. I admired his carefree attitude about his poems: they will be written when they are ready to be written. He informed me that the first poem in his latest book was written quickly, but the others took much longer. It was fascinating to see inside his creative process.

 “My inspiration is a mystery! You can’t define or describe what is inspiration. What is the difference between inspiration in a particular moment and another moment? I look at what’s around me, the human condition, problems with the environment.”

His most impactful and key statement about his work was: 

“I Like to create doubts and thoughts about what I talk about in my poetry. I want questions not answers. I’m not able to make answers, poets aren’t able to give answers they can’t, but instead doubts!”

This is a selfless take on poetry, Enea Roversi doesn’t want to gain anything from his books or garner any special attention. His mission is simply to make his audience think beyond themselves and their social bubbles.

Enea Roversi runs his own website and blog where he shares his own work and promotes other authors. There you can also see his biography, his awards, a creative video and his contacts. Enea Roversi shared that his most recent book sensibile alle minuscole and Coleoptera were his favourites to write. Coleoptera specifically was written during the Covid-19 pandemic, and he found the poems had themes that applied to the time they were published but were written 2 years before.

 “I am not a prophet; it was by chance. many times, poets can imagine things in the future.”

To round out the interview Enea Roversi generously gifted a copy of his book. As a student with a love for writing and words I will keep Coleoptera close to me as Enea Roversi’s poems make it to Australia.

 “Poetry is very little especially in Italy, the audience is very small. It is difficult as not many people are interested or understand poetry. It’s not the same as other countries.”