`Our words were the form we entered': A model of World Wide Web hypertext

Poetry has entered the electronic landscape though often times eclipsed by its mode of transmission such as the World Wide Web (WWW) or the electronic mail. Electronic writing engages the double `mission' of writing: to varying degrees, writing is about a subject, but also about the medium through which it is transmitted. Electronic technology also offers unprecedented opportunities for the production, archiving, distribution and promotion of poetic texts but most importantly, electronic space is a space of writing. The mode of transmission in electronic writing also demands a fusion between form and language of the text and the actual language of the transmission mode.