Published 2023. Chapbook, 28pp, 9 x 6ins, £7.50 / $10
ISBN 9781848618398 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

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 21 ^st century where he is surely needed to puncture the hypocrisies of a discredited age.

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