Edwin Thumboo
...that Edwin Thumboo's 1979 poem Ulysses by the Merlion has influenced so many other Singaporean poets, it is joked that a true Singapore poet has to have written a "Merlion poem"?
...that <b id="mwClI"><a href="./Edwin_Thumboo" id="mwClM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edwin Thumboo">Edwin Thumboo</a></b><span id="mwClQ" typeof="mw:Nowiki">'</span>s 1979 poem <i id="mwClU">Ulysses by the Merlion</i> has influenced so many other <a href="./Singapore" id="mwClY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Singapore">Singaporean</a> poets, it is joked that a true Singapore poet has to have written a "<a href="./Merlion" id="mwClc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Merlion">Merlion</a> poem"?