Charles Henry "Marty" Gervais (born 1946) is a Canadian poet, photographer, professor, journalist, and publisher of Black Moss Press.
In 2006 Gervais and his work were the subject of a TV Bravo episode of the television series Heart of a Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.
This followed Gervais' 2006 book, Wait For Me, that was launched on the west coast at readings in Victoria, British Columbia, and Salt Spring Island.
He then visited Prince Edward Island's Hugh Macdonald, the province's poet laureate, and conducted workshops and readings.
mansion of the Hiram Walker family, proved to be the best setting for this event that brought poets laureate from all over the country to Windsor.
The event was held in October 2013 with Governor General's Award winning poet laureate of Toronto, George Elliott Clarke, reading his work.
Earlier that summer (2013), Gervais brought writers together for another reading on the "Tall Ships" that docked on the Detroit River at the foot of Ouellette Avenue in Windsor, Ont.
Gervais' work was also featured in the spring of 2013 on the popular IDEAS program on CBC from readings he did at the Edmonton Poetry Festival, again with poets laureate from all over Canada.
The poems, collected in an anthology called Because We Have All Lived Here, were premiered at the opening concert in September 2017of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra with readings from actors between movements of Brahms’ Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn.
Earlier that year in the spring, Gervais put on an event that drew more than 300 to launch new books from Black Moss Pfress, of which he is also the publisher.
These letters were written from leprosy colonies in India, missions in South Africa and from field hospitals in France in the Second World War.