Hypertext is the perfect medium for my subject matter, for throughout this work you will see form fitting content, physically and thematically. As a hypertext reader you will begin your own process--a process of reading--and hopefully you will experience and come to understand this poetry just as I came to "understand" it, to "know" it.
Hypertext offers a new means of communication and allows for creativity with narrative style, syntax, and diction. It offers freedom from the strict rules and linearity of conventional form. This freedom is especially important for a people who search for their own language and their own voice. Irish women are such a people, for they have been silenced on two accounts: their gender and their race. They have been silenced as women and as colonized persons. Hypertext might be the perfect forum to introduce their stories, many of which are only beginning to be told. This form allows the reader to hear the collective voice and the individual stories simultaneously, which would be impossible in more traditional mediums.
Using hypertext as my tool I present the stories and the writing styles of these Irish women. My goal as a writer, and your goal as a reader, is to uncover the "wildest depths" (Ailbhe Smith), the "imaginative space" of these women and of ourselves. For now the untold stories will be not only heard but experienced, as you, the reader, get trapped in the stories/poems. The connection between form and content that exists within hypertext will hold you within these moments (poems). I anticipate that the work of these women, McGuckian in particular, will open your eyes to what has come undone.