Andries Walter Oliphant Poems

Andries Walter Oliphant is a writer, theorist, cultural leader, and playwright. He’s a former Fulbright Scholar in Comparative Literature and has won awards for his literary criticism and his own writing.

Childhood in Heidelberg

by Andries Walter Oliphant

‘Childhood in Heidelberg’ by Andries Walter Oliphant is a thoughtful a complicated poem in which the speaker, a child, discusses their life growing up in Heidelberg, South Africa.

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