These new poems are about luck, about people, about life as it is played out in the life of a poet, a journalist and someone who marvels at a world that sometimes is turned upside down.

A very special book full of humour, irony, reminiscences, nostalgia. Marty Gervais is a master story teller and successfully brings small town life and its people back to life in these sketches. He was raised as a staunch Roman Catholic in Windsor, Ontario, a border town, in the shadow of Detroit, the son of an auto worker. The 1950's was an era obsessed with morality, followed by the hope and turmoil of the 1960's.Marty Gervais was a keen and insightful chronicler of all decades in his capacity as one of the best journalist in Southwesten Ontario, writing for the Windsor Star. Finally,...

The award-winning poet Marty Gervais looks no further than life as it unfolds around him. He sees poetry as “the history of the human heart,” and it is there that he discovers the substance for these new poems where the writer wrestles with the universal questions age, illness, and even death but not without showing the reader the tremendous power devotion plays in the conduct of one's life. This eclectic mix of poems are about boxers and singers, monks and priests in the Andes, and about a brother finding a ‘cure’ for blindness. Other poems speak about what people know, or see, or...

Set in the late 1920s and 1930s, this is the story of teenage French-Canadian farm girls from Stoney Point and Pain Court and Grande Pointe packing up and moving to the city, to find work in Windsor or Detroit as house keepers and nannies for well-to-do families. Marie Anne Mineau was one of those innocent young women whose life on the farm and the village is dominated by religion, and all its expectations and superstitions. She speaks of ghosts in the fields and haunting the farmhouse, of weddings and lavish picnics in a black Walnut grove back the barn, of collecting eggs and doing chores,...