Indie Blu(e) Publishing is pleased to announce that Rachel Finch’s Conversations with My Higher Self and A Sparrow Stirs its Wings and Melody Lee’s Season of the Sorceress are now available in Kindle editions.
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Indie Blu(e) Publishing is thrilled to announce the re-release of Rachel Finch’s stunning debut poetry collection A Sparrow Stirs its Wings in May of 2019.
Finch is the powerhouse behind the Bruised But Not Broken community on Facebook, which provides support and healing for trauma survivors. She is a symbol of hope and light throughout the world.
“Every now and then, when the world seems to be rocked in chaos and people are screaming without listening – vile words and cries for help climbing on top of and over each other – a single voice stands out, and that voice is pure in its truth and stunning in its wisdom.
Rachel Finch, and her debut book, A Sparrow Stirs its Wings, is that voice right now. Turning her heartbreaking abuse into heart-wrenching prose, Finch writes her truth and gives her strength to every unnamed victim turned survivor.”
Nicole Lyons, I Am A World Of Uncertainties Disguised As A Girl
Shout-out to Phoenix Ascended for this beautiful video trailer of Rachel Finch’s A Sparrow Stirs its Wings.
Paperback, 148 pages/Published June 28, 2018 by Sudden Denouement Publishing
A Sparrow Stirs its Wings is available at Amazon.com, Amazon Europe (Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, and Amazon.es), and Book Depository.
From the moment Sudden Denouement Publishing announced the publication of Rachel Finch’s debut poetry collection, I could not wait to read it. Finch made a brave and bold entrance onto Blood into Ink, with ignition pieces like Girls are not for Beating (pg.35). I was hooked by her ability to sing fire with a bloody mouth.
A Sparrow Stirs its Wings houses this spirit of fight and flight. Flight not from fear but from the space she has shaped to soar. The structure of the collection reminds me of Alfa’s Silent Squall except Finch begins with the girl crossing her heart and hoping to die, walking on eggshells (pg.19), and ends as a woman who recognises strength and hope in her reflection:
I did not notice the growth, until I had grown,
I had not seen myself changing, becoming,
until the woman I forged reflected my gaze
and held my stare with no shame.’Hold the Stare
In fact, I would even say Finch’s sparrow does more than stir its wings – it unfurls them in the morning sun and defies the laws of gravity. This debut collection is more than just honest, beautifully brutal storytelling. Finch has created a collection the reader will feel compelled to return to, time and time again. Moon Breathing makes me fall in love, Heal is the advice I need imprinted on my palm and Still Smouldering never fails to provoke a visceral reaction:
‘I was reborn a dragon feasting on the fire in my belly, lit with milk teeth in my mouth’
Finch’s voice has found a home, in these pages and in my chest. She touches her readers. She tells the truth and explores hers. She leaves you with the following words:
‘You are the smell of rain before it hits the soil.’
And you can’t help but believe them.
Image courtesy of Alfa
You can read more of Kristiana’s writing at My Screaming Twenties
