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The Hound's Vigil: Poems of Nation and Change
Paperback
Publisher: John Shenton
Published: Feb 6 2026
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This collection brings together a powerful body of poetry examining modern society through the lens of history, tradition, culture, and national identity. Drawing on historical parallels, current global issues, and timeless human struggles, these poems explore how nations rise, change, and sometimes lose their way.
Across the collection, readers will find poems that reflect on heritage, faith, law, freedom, social change, political power, and the pressures facing Western civilisation today. Some works are deeply reflective and symbolic, while others are direct, hard-hitting, and rooted in contemporary debate. Together, they form a broad narrative that moves between past and present, warning, questioning, and remembering.
The collection also balances its larger themes with more personal and allegorical pieces, including animal parables, maritime reflections, and poems about loyalty, loss, and endurance. These moments provide contrast, grounding larger social commentary in shared human experience.
This is a collection for readers who enjoy poetry that engages with real-world ideas-poetry that challenges, reflects, and encourages independent thought while drawing strength from history and tradition.
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