The World You Now Own, published in September 2024, is my fifth book. It is a hybrid collection, comprising some new poems (some published in online and print journals, some not) and a novella in verse. The latter–entitled “Deliverance 1961: A Novella in Thirth-Two Cantos”–is a period piece, as its title suggests. It involves a chance encounter between two strangers on an eastbound train travelling from Vancouver to Toronto. “Deliverance 1961” is told mostly in flashbacks.

From the cover endorsement written by Frances Boyle:

“The world P. W. Bridgman evokes in The World You Now Own is rich and multifaceted, peopled with closely drawn characters of various ages situate in many locations and walks of life. There is sly humour here, along with fine, detailed observations and sumptuous turns of phrase: in tenderness (for a child, for the world in its beauties and its tragedies) and in moving love poems. Bridgman engages in technical feats throughout, with his formal invention particularly evident in the novella in verse that rocks along like its passenger train setting, where two characters confront their pasts and (potential) futures.”