As anyone will know who has recently had reason to visit the web site of the English Department at the University of Western Ontario, Canadian Poetry is going online. Thanks to the concerted efforts and skills of R.J. Shroyer, Gerard Stafleu, Julian Bowers, Tim McPhee, Mike Woods, and a host of dedicated and enthusiastic editorial assistants (Kevin Davis, Kim Edmonson, Anna Kupiec, Anjanette Lacey, Quang Ly, Shawn Morley, Samantha Proffitt, and Marc Russell), the first thirty-five issues of the journal are now available through the Canadian Poetry Press Homepage (http://www.arts.uwo.ca/canpoetry/), together with information about orders, submissions, and other matters. The plan is to continue publishing Canadian Poetry in paper for the foreseeable future, while also augmenting the electronic version of the journal at the rate of two issues per year (thus, numbers 36 and 37 will go online in 2000, numbers 38 and 39 in 2001, and so on).

(1) the scholarly editions in the Early Canadian Long Poems series, including new editions that are currently nearing completion and editions produced as theses at Western;

(2) the texts and editions in the Post-Confederation Poetry: Texts and Contexts series, including all volumes of poetry by the principal Confederation poets and scholarly editions of the non-fictional prose of Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, Charles G.D. Roberts, and Duncan Campbell Scott; and

(3) poems drawn from such major pre-Confederation newspapers as The Quebec Gazette and The Quebec Mercury.

Once the scholarly editions in (1) have been entered into the electronic archive, their editorial apparatus, particularly their annotations, will be open for supplementation, as will the scholarly editions in the Post-Confederation Poetry series. (Additional annotations should be sent either by e-mail to shroyer@uwo.ca or by ordinary mail to the Canadian Poetry Press at the Department English, University of Western Ontario. They will be read by both the general and the associate editor of the Press as well as by another specialist in the field and, if approved for inclusion in the electronic text, have the equivalent status for credentializing purposes as a publication in Notes and Queries.) No less in electronic than in paper form Canadian Poetry and the Canadian Poetry Press will rely on the peer review system of appraisal that the journal pioneered for Canadian literary studies at its inception in 1977.