The Song of Our Blood

About the Book

The Song of Our Blood is a debut poetry collection that brings together history, memory, and a contemporary voice. The book emerges from a personal need to understand loss, resilience, and the passage of time through language that bridges the past and the present.The poems move between intimate reflection and inherited stories, reimagining gods and heroes alongside meditations on mortality, grief, and transformation. At the heart of the collection is grief not as an ending, but as a form of inheritance, shaped by the values and memories of those who are no longer present. Drawing on both classical and modern literary traditions, The Song of Our Blood balances tradition with originality. Each poem is rooted in personal experience, yet reaches toward something universal, capturing the longing, sorrow, and hope that flow through human lives, as if carried in our very blood.

About the Author

Mohammad Mandviwalla is a seventeen-year-old poet and student at Karachi Grammar School, currently completing his first year of A Levels. Drawn from an early age to mythology, history, and literature, his writing is shaped by a long-standing engagement with inherited stories and the emotional weight they carry. His work explores themes of grief, memory, and continuity, seeking to understand how personal experience intersects with the timeless patterns of human life. The Song of Our Blood is his debut poetry collection.