Fugacity, an online poetry anthology hosted by the excellent New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre, features a cracker line-up of poets from around the world. Its genesis is described as follows:

Between 12 noon Thursday 21 April and 12 noon Saturday 23 April 2005 poems mailed or brought on a disk to the FUGACITY 05 symposium in Christchurch were assembled to make an online poetry anthology ready for launching at New Brighton beach on the city?s eastern littoral.

Guidelines were posted electronically and distributed as widely as possible. We wanted to see who would fill the space offered in the time specified. We liked the thought of balancing geographical specificity (a festive gathering in a southern hemisphere city) against the post-geographical possibilities of the Internet (distance reconfigured by cyberspace).

We opened the portals and in the 48 hours of our festival we made something to match the fugacious spirit of the event.

The definition of fugacity – put simply, the tendency of a gas to expand or escape – may seem a little removed from this online space but the idea of opening submissions for a short space of time is an interesting one, and there's some great poems and prose pieces, not the least of which is Pam Brown's “Anyworld”, first published online in Cordite.

So, go and get, erm, fugacious.