Arthur Powell is one of the strongest right-wing voices in poetry today. In his debut work Horizons of Iron, Powell commands a variety of moods, shades, and poetic voices, but his poetry remains always muscular and powerful. Writing of his homeland, of nature, and of the degeneracy and promise of modernity, Powell stands in the tradition of Kipling, Henley, and Lord Tennyson, stretching back to the great English bards who sang Beowulf and Gawain—a tradition of masculine poetry as old as the hills. Powell is living proof that this ancient tradition does not lie fallow beneath the barrows of Albion, but is alive and well.