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Marty Gervais

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Marty Gervais is an award winning journalist, photographer, poet, playwright, historian, editor and teacher.

In 1998, he won the prestigious Toronto’s Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian letters and to emerging writers. In 1996, he was awarded the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award for his book, Tearing Into A Summer Day. That book was awarded the City of Windsor Mayor’s Award for literature.

In 2003, Gervais was again awarded City of Windsor Mayor’s Award for literature, this time for his book, To Be Now: new and selected poems.

In 2005, Gervais was featured on a film made for TV Bravo. The film, Heart of A Poet, was made by Maureen Judge. It explores the life of Gervais as a poet, journalist and photographer.

Ge Marty Gervais is an award winning journalist, photographer, poet, playwright, historian, editor and teacher.

In 1998, he won the prestigious Toronto’s Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian letters and to emerging writers. In 1996, he was awarded the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award for his book, Tearing Into A Summer Day. That book was awarded the City of Windsor Mayor’s Award for literature.

In 2003, Gervais was again awarded City of Windsor Mayor’s Award for literature, this time for his book, To Be Now: new and selected poems.

In 2005, Gervais was featured on a film made for TV Bravo. The film, Heart of A Poet, was made by Maureen Judge. It explores the life of Gervais as a poet, journalist and photographer.

Gervais led a group of writers to France where they read at Shakespeare & Co. Books in Paris.

In 2005, Gervais’ first novel, Reno, was published and launched at BookFest Windsor. Taking My Blood, an elegant chapbook based on 17 days in a hospital with a debilitating condition of Crohn’s, was published in late 2005.

In 2006, Gervais published Wait For Me, his first full collection since To Be Now. It was launched at the Mocombo Cafe in Victoria and at a reading on Salt Spring Island, B.C.

Gervais has also been the recipient of 16 Western Ontario Newspaper Awards for journalism.

Marty Gervais received a B.A. from the University of Guelph, and an M.A. from the University of Windsor where he studied writing under the celebrated Canadian novelist and short story writer Morley Callaghan. He has written more than a dozen books of poetry, two plays and a novella. His most successful work, The Rumrunners, a book about the Prohibition period was a Canadian bestseller in 1980. Equally successful was Seeds In The Wilderness, a book of essays based on interviews Gervais conducted with such notable religious leaders as Mother Theresa, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Hans Kung and Terry Waite. With this latter book, Gervais photographed many of these world leaders.

In 1985,Voices That Thunder brought together his photographs and stories from his month-long experience of being in a Catholic mission in Peru.

In addition to being a writer, Marty Gervais is the founder and part owner of Black Moss Press.

Marty Gervais also is Resident Writing Professional at the University of Windsor where he teaches courses in editing, publishing and creative writing.

He also writes a regular column, called My Town for The Windsor Star. ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 99 ratings · 25 reviews · 24 distinct works

	The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Road And Other Forgotten Stories of Windsor 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Town: Faces of Windsor 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afternoons with the Devil: Growing Up Catholic in a Border Town 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Touch the Darkness really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Dress Everyday: Poems in my Mother's Voice it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hands (294) (Essential Poets series) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Days Walking the Five Towns: Touring Windsor's Past 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Wait for Me 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Trebuie sa înveti sa te stapânesti pentru a te adapta
imprevizibilului si a te mentine în activitate pe linia
dreapta a obiectivelor”
― Marty Gervais

tags: self-improvement

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