Apres Rops

<p class=ql-align-justify>Félicien Rops (1833-1898) was a Belgian artist primarily a print-maker. He was a friend of Baudelaire Gautier Mallarmé and Péladan. His work - symbolist and decadent in tone - retains its shock value over a century later. In a sequence of poems inspired by Rops' etchings and peppered with ill-translated fragments plundered from old exhibition catalogues Hackbridge Johnson wrenches the daring reprobate into the 21st century where he is surely needed to puncture the hypocrisies of a discredited age.</p><p><br></p>