Resistance Is Futile

Resistance is Futile opens in Mongolia with a poem called 'Yoghurt'. It is spring in Ulan Bator and Hoo Gerjan is seeking legal advice over a stolen car. This is the first of twelve weird narratives separated by brief, lyric moments: stories of Samuel Beckett's telephone, a bet on God's Kindness, Fyodor the Crow, murder and revenge in the New Zealand goldfields, a little Italian anarchist assassin, a Christmas message from the Vatican received through an iron, and so on.
Gallas keeps finding new ways of telling stories in poetry. His characters endure and survive the wild short-circuitings of language and plot. The most anarchic fact of all is that these things really happen.

John Gallas is currently a teacher in the Leicester Student Support Service.

Yoghurt	p. 7
Museum with Samuel Beckett's Telephone	p. 11
Bush	p. 12
The Ballad of Robin Hood and the Deer	p. 49
Christmas Message from the Vatican received through an Iron	p. 53
Brancaster Sands in the Fog	p. 55
'The Woods of Middle England Shine ...'	p. 57
The Ballad of Santo Caserio	p. 59
The Assistant Auditor for Agriculture Visits Uzbekistan	p. 64
Altoo and the Bet about God	p. 67
TWOC	p. 87
Fyodor the Crow	p. 90
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