Roy Bentley’s My Mother’s Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986-2020, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli

Roy Bentley My Mother’s Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986-2020 Lost Horse Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Roy Bentley’s My Mother’s Red Ford may be a collection of the poet’s work from the last several decades, beginning with his 1986 book Boy in a Boat, and concluding with new poems, but it’s also a fine […]

Roy Bentley – Richly Robed Rhinoceroses Riding in Rickety Red Rickshaws

Richly Robed Rhinoceroses Riding in Rickety Red Rickshaws                     —Graeme Base, Animalia My mother had brothers murdered in Appalachia. Men that other men knew they had to shoot or fight all night long. I couldn’t keep straight who shot who. My mother told me, more than once, to get it right. And so I made a […]