NEWS & VIEWS

News

The next Oik (7) will appear mid October 2010

The Oik is sold at cost and published by Lulu. The cost of a single Oik is just under £3. This is still the case but unfortunately Lulu's postage rates have taken a sudden huge hike. We used to pay something like 25P a copy but this has now risen to almost £1. If we order 50 or more in one go this reduces to 65P. We must therefore increase the price from Oik 4 to £3.50.

Views

"This is just the kind of thing I like" - Carol Anne Duffy - reported by our sales director, the indefatigable Bob Wild when he pressed one on her at a reading in Didsbury. She hadn't of course read it when she said that.

"That Ralph Bundlethorpe should be reported to the police" - Bronwyn Wild (Bob's sister-in-law) on reading Retirement Year One in Oik 1

"Our Cissie's Norman's Darren thinks your Oik is the best thing since that Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich" - David Birtwistle

"Am thoroughly enjoying Oik 3 (possible masthead slogan might be: OIK RULES OK) especially the Sartreana, visual and verbal. Many laughs throughout." - Alexis Lykiard - poet & novelist

"Thanks for the two Oiks which are very well produced and for the contents which are entertaining and combative and lots of other things." - John Murray - novelist