Northshire Bookstore: Poetry Reading with Jeff McRae and Cindy Ellen Hill

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McRae will share poems from his collection, The Kingdom Where No One Dies, a finalist for the 2025 Vermont Book Award. Hill will read from her new gothic horror novel in sonnet verse set in the isolated coastal marsh off New Jersey in 1702. Jeff McRae- The Kingdom Where No One Dies The Kingdom Where No One Dies is a deeply textured and emotionally resonant poetry collection that explores memory, loss, family, and the enduring tension between rootedness and impermanence. Structured in three parts, the manuscript moves with grace and subtle force through personal history, rural landscapes, and shifting states of mind. From the fields of a family farm to the quiet griefs of parenthood and aging, the collection renders the particulars of lived experience with precision, warmth, and an unflinching honesty. “These poems argue, with inspired lyric clarity, that consolation resides not in our fractured childhoods but in the wholeness of adulthood and in the knowledge we gained by watching our innocence dissolve into thin air.” —Mary Jo Bang, author of A Doll for Throwing and The Last Two Seconds Cindy Ellen Hill – Leeds Point Leeds Point is a gothic horror novel in sonnet verse set in the isolated coastal marsh off New Jersey in 1702. The story interweaves Leni Lenape folklore and the origin story of the Jersey Devil, and richly engages the natural and contemporary literary realms; osprey, rabbit and fox, along with the works of Newton, Donne, and Milton, all play vital speaking roles. As the consequences of the Glorious Revolution unfold, and Englad releases its crown monopoly on the transatlantic slave trade, Leeds Point depicts the role slavery, religious conflict, and environmental destruction played in the shaping of early America. “This is the research-based, novel-length poem we didn’t know we needed. Despite being almost completely made out of sonnets, it is a wholly modern, intersectional feminist tour-de-force.” —Jessy Randall, author, The Path of Most…

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