Today we do not only see the convergence of many modern and postmodern strategies in literature, forming that “difficult whole” McHale enumerates in his work on postmodern long poems, *The Obligation Toward a Difficult Whole*, but we are also living in an eruption of digital technologies which today are considered by most to be media, and thus called new media. *riverIsland*, I argue, is a meta-text and a paradigmatic example of new media poetry as instantiation of many different concurrent strategies and traditions (with highly diverse genealogies) which co-exist now. In my reading I focus on the morphing in *riverIsland* as one of those strategies.

Artikeln behandlar ett digitalt poetiskt verk, riverIsland, av John Cayley. Det multimediala diktverket gjort i och för en datormiljö diskuteras som en metatext, en reflektion över den ’nya’ poesins metoder och som ett exempel på hur dessa förändras i poesin som nu skapas i digitala medier.