Gerry Gilbert (April 7, 1936 – June 19, 2009) was a Canadian poet known for his rejection all awards and competitions on the basis that personal ambition in art led to a lack of sincerity.
His art reflects this unique birth as much of its allure is a kind of tension between remaining and continuing.
Gilbert then returned to Vancouver and although he died there he managed to live and travel across Canada and Europe in his younger years.
Gerry became a fixture in the Vancouver art scene and began a periodical anthology of writing that he distributed himself called British Columbia Monthly (later B.C.
His largest and most comprehensive work is Moby Jane published by Toronto's Coach House Books in 1987.