In alignment with my poem in the Summer Issue of The Fiddlehead, I recommend How I Bend into More by Tea Gerbeza. Her exploration of the changes in her body due to scoliosis and the experience of surgery were profound for me, the mother of a relatively nonverbal kid who could not express all that he has endured with his spine. We intuit so much. Thank you Tea. Also, my son recently made an alphabetical play list, beginning with ABBA and ending with ZZ Top, he picked every band or musician from A-Z and what an eclectic play list. T for Tom Waits anyone?
— Yvonne Blomer has published a cycling memoir and six books of poetry, most recently Death of Persephone: A Murder (Caitlin Press, 2024). She lives on the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking people in Victoria, BC. She has edited three water-focused, eco-poetry anthologies, Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice is the latest.
You can read Yvonne Blomer’s poem "My heart is an unruly sideshow" in Issue 308 (Summer 2026) Disability: The Revolution. Order the issue now:
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