Poets from Amasya or connected with it from the late nineteenth century to the present: biographies and sources.
Ahmet Emrî Yetkin (1887-1974), the Amasya scholar whose Arabic odes were printed in Cairo and Turkish poems in Ankara: his correspondents, works and response poems.
Son of Balcı Hoca, Hüsameddin's own teacher, Sabri Mustafa Efendi of Amasya became a calligrapher, poet and sheikh of the Emîr Buhârî lodge in Istanbul; he died in 1920 or 1922.
Dâimî Ali Efendi (1861-1925), pupil of Mîr Hasan Efendi, chief clerk of the Amasya population registry and seed merchant: his political hopes, his nickname and his lost verse.
With Hüsameddin he read the Persian classics from the Bustan to the Shahnameh: Şirvânîzâde Enver Ahmed Efendi, Persian teacher at the Amasya rüşdiye and idadi.
Emîn Ali Mehmed Efendi, son of the inheritance lawyer Erzurumî Ömer Efendi: his path from the Amasya rüşdiye to the Mekteb-i Nüvvâb and the judgeship of Sinop.
Hacı Hâfız Mustafa Tevfik Efendi of Köprü: teacher, mufti and deputy of Amasya, one of the 'Sa'deyn' with Kâmil Efendi, author of prosody commentaries, and no poet.
Mehmet Sabri Yetkin, eldest son of Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi: madrasa education, years as librarian, twenty years as mufti of Amasya, his manuscripts and two ghazals.
Bahâeddîn Mehmed Efendi, born in Dehne in Karabakh and raised in Amasya: disciple of Nigârî, madrasa teacher, teacher of Persian at the sultaniye, and his verse.
Born in Şeki and raised in Amasya, Resûl Sâmi Efendi followed Mîr Hamza Nigârî and served as accountant from Karbala to Tripolitania and the Hejaz; his life and his Najaf elegy.
Ayhan Bozkurt (b. 1971), whose first book won the Rıfat Ilgaz Cide Prize: a poetry centred on fear, his novels and Söz Simyacıları, his portraits of seven poets.
Salih Aydemir (b. 1967), teacher-poet and founder of the press Öteki-siz: school years in Ulukışla, poems in reviews and the books that began with Meriç Hanım.
The works of Hüseyin Kıran of Amasya, who began with the poems of Madde Kara in 2004, made his name with the novel Resul and returned to poetry with Küstah.
Hicabi Kırlangıç, poet and scholar born in Amasya: his poetry from Aylık Dergi onwards, three books of poems and his translations of Rumi, Hafiz and the Selim Şah-nâme.
Azmi Aytaç (b. 1931), who wrote in both syllabic metre and aruz: his first poem in the newspaper Merzifon, his music, the composed "Uşşak Divanı" and six late books.
Sami Baydar (1962-2012), who came to poetry from painting: his academy years, his books from Dünya Efendileri to Dünya İnancı, and his last twenty years in Merzifon.
A public prosecutor for thirty years and a descendant of Eyüb Sabrî, Berin Taşan (1928-2018) of Merzifon wrote from his first poem in Varlık to Önce and Şahdamarından.
Trained at the Akpınar Village Institute, Osman Bolulu (1929-2017) of Taşova taught in Taşova and Amasya and wrote poems, essays and books on language.
General manager of the Teachers' Bank and managing editor of Çaba, Sami Ayhan (1929-1982) of Gümüşhacıköy collected his poems in a single book, Şiirler.
Author of Nurlu Yol (Aydın Yol), a book of advice for children, Naci Gürses was an Amasya-born hafız and bookseller; on a visit home he wrote the poem Allah Deyu.
İskender Hâki Engin, teacher, calligrapher and poet of Merzifon: the Taşan journal, his People's House years, the Medrese Önü Mosque and his national anthem entry.
The real author of the Râbia Hatun quatrains, once passed off as the work of an old woman poet: Merzifon-born historian İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, his life, works and Muhtî poems.
A Mülkiye-trained official, Mehmed Es'ad of Amasya (1878-1918) taught the history of religions at the Medresetü'l-Vâizîn and left two histories unfinished; his poetry is doubtful.
The poetry of Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, author of the History of Amasya, as Asrî: his Amasya murabba, tahmis on ghazals by Nelmî and Rüşdî, and a ghazal reproaching his town.
The life of the Mevlevi poet Ahmed Remzi Akyürek, his one-day visit to Amasya in 1936, his friendship with Emrî Efendi and the ghazal "Amasya İçin" he sent to the city.
İbrâhim Cûdî, born in Merzifon, schooled in Amasya, teacher in Salonica and Istanbul and deputy for Amasya: Hüsameddin's record, his life, his single-copy divan and his poems.
The poet behind the mufti of Amasya: Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's Divançe in the National Library, his fourteen Turkish poems under the pen name Kâmil, his metres and divine love.
The mesnevi that opens Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's Divançe: nineteen couplets on the basmala, praise of God, blessings on the Prophet and loyalty to the Sunni path.
The Amasya ghazal Remzî sent by letter to Emrî Efendi after a one-day visit in 1936: the mosques, the Yeşilırmak, the water wheels, the apples and Governor Tal‘at.
The Karbala elegy with the refrain "weeps today" that Resûl Sâmi improvised in Najaf on a day of Muharram while joining the mourning of Iranian pilgrims.
Hüsameddin's tahmis, written in Nelmî's voice, on the ghazal of the poet who drowned himself in the Yeşilırmak: separation, the Karbala of grief and a suicide foretold.
Bahâeddîn Mehmed Efendi's couplet likening the training of the self to an untrained falcon: a hunting image in the language of the Sufi orders and a teacher's voice.
The ghazal Cûdî wished to have on his gravestone: the reckoning, at seventy-three, of a life that drank no cup but poetry, begged from no one and grew deep as a sea without overflowing.
A seven-couplet mesnevi by Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi on a beauty who seized his heart while he was giving counsel: cypress stature, brows like Yemeni swords, the madrasa of love.
The conceit of candle and moth tied to Sufism: in Bahâeddîn Mehmed Efendi's couplet the heart's fire is capital for salvation, and the word tut reads two ways.
The 78-couplet kaside "Harb-i Umûmî" that Cûdî wrote out in his own hand in 1915 for Hüsameddin: the law of fire and of war, Russia, England and the First World War.
A nine-couplet mesnevi by Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi in which the beloved answers the lover's letter: the address "Ḫâcecigim", a promise of union and a closing play on the pen name.
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