Winner of the International
Berkshire Prize from Tupelo Press

Named among "The 2026 Debut Poetry
Collection You Need To Read" by Debutiful

Avia Tadmor's poetry debut, Song in Tammuz, is a contemporary exploration of displacement, desire, and longing.

In conversation with the Book of Ruth, these poems span centuries and continents while traversing linguistic forms. Footnotes, dictionary definitions, the lyrical, the elegiac, and the ekphrastic bring old and new together as their speakers seek new definitions of self and of home.

What does it mean to be othered by and through language? What happens when grammar, syntax, and the concepts of identity housed within them are at odds? Does a revolutionary message demand new forms of discourse?