Tropical Scenes: Poems

by Ken Puddicombe

Ken Puddicombe, author of Down Independence Boulevard And Other Stories, winner of the Guyana Prize For Literature (Fiction 2022), captures a nostalgic look-back at life in the British Colony in The Before and The After independence in twenty-three poems.The Before captures the weather in the pre-independence period with poems Rainy Season and Tropical Rainand Aftermath, indentureship in The Bonded, characters like The Town Crier and Lincoln who were clearly influential in his early childhood observations, the impact of the cinema in the colony in the person of Reds The Scalper who sold tickets at a marked-up price outside the cinema, and Rioters during the disturbances when Georgetown’s business district was devasted by arson and looting.The After touches on the post-independence era with the impact on the social life of the new nation (Moving Sidewalks, The Punt Trench, Roadside Vendor), people displaced during the disturbances (The Refugee) and a nostalgic look at a period long gone (Life In The Countryside, Not Coming Home, Echoes).

51 pages, Paperback

Published November 22, 2023

About the author

Ken Puddicombe’s first calling was in the Accounting profession. He’s a professional [CPA, CMA] Management Accountant] who provided controllership for a number of companies in the private sector before he retired to pursue his first love of writing. His hobbies includes travelling and he is slowly covering all five continents, having already travelled to South East Asia, South America, and Europe. He considers himself a people watcher watcher and loves to observe all aspects of the human psyche. His writing has appeared in newspapers and literary journals. Originally from British Guiana [now Guyana] in South America, he immigrated to Canada and still lives there with his family. Racing With The Rain was his first novel and is set in British Guiana, Cuba, Canada and Guyana. His second novel Junta is now out on amazon. A collection of short stories entitled Down Independence Boulevard is being worked on. His genre is fiction, based on international locations but especially focussed in Canada, the Caribbean and Guyana. His website: http://www.kenpuddicombe.ca/Writer