JOE — Ray Blyde. The Oik now has a website at www. So what? Yet it seems a necessary addition these days and the symbiotic benefits are obvious. This quote from the website intro might explain how the computer is changing the literary landscape:. Do we need yet another literary magazine? They say the best reason for writing is that no one is writing the stuff you want to read.
Publishers grow ever larger but stay blinkered by blockbusters. Creative writing courses proliferate to squash talent into a commercial straitjacket. But there are cracks in the monolith. Unfortunately oikitude is a defining characteristic of our typical contributor. Crazy rich gits, like say Beckford, Firbank, or even Proust have the cash and the contacts to ensure they get into print. The Crazy Oik will change all that and give voice to the neglected and the uncommercial.
Dig out that stuff you buried in a shoe box years ago. Even better —start writing again. Are you a crazy oik or not? See the OED definition on p97 if you want a job description. Writers should get together to cut out these parasites. Book production technology has changed utterly see above.
How does Crazy Oik Publications sound? Ron Horsefield announces some recognition by the Sarkozy govt. Specifically the mayor of Fecamp invites Ron to an initiation ceremony following his recent visit to the town see back cover.
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We welcome Kevin Bludger to our ranks and wonder if some kind of lexicon would be helpful. Jaruzelski adds the second panel to his diptych celebrating oik comic heroes see also Biggles Pulls it Off in Oik 2. Odd that his usual prose style, a fractured sub-Conradian pidgin should become fluently mimetic in these bizarre pastiches.
