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.
Latîfî places Hayâtî in Merzifon, while Âşık Çelebi and Kınalızâde remember him as Memâtî's brother; the Postî joke, a life that ended in the Hejaz, and a tangled identity.
Âşık Mehmet İnan of Yeşilöz: the 1960 gathering at which he hosted Âşık Veysel, the exchanged instruments and his taped telling of the Aleppo branch of Köroğlu.
The Study of Medicine, Useful to Medical Practice, two Formularies and Angitats Anpet by the Armenian physician of Amasya: contents, copies and the 1492 colophon written in Amasya.
Ali Cem Akbulut (b. 1978) of Harız, folk poet writing as Esedî and Rüsvaî: his nefes-style poetry, his books on the minstrels of Gaziler Ovacığı and his anthology.
Yanyatan Ali (1923-1990) of Diphacı near Merzifon was a zakir of the Kul Hüseyin branch who collected the district's deyiş, made bağlamas and gave Hicabî Derviş his pen name.
Born in Sarımeşe (Efte), Ozan Fedaî, Fedai Koç (1956-2024), spent most of his life driving lorries in Germany and sang of history and Amasya in Azad Eyle.
Filib, the name read in the pen-name stanza of a semai in the Merzifon Cönkü: the doubtful reading, the possibility of a non-Muslim poet and the stanza itself.
Cezbî, reported to have a syllabic poem in the Merzifon Cönkü: his place in it, the meaning of his pen name and the quatrain printed under his name that is Bezmî's.
Âşık Mustafa, with a single ghazal in aruz in the Merzifon Cönkü: his place in the manuscript, the article's syllabic-aruz slip and the first two couplets.
Mahsûnî, with a single koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: his place in the manuscript, his link with Amasya, a possible reading Mahzûnî, and his first quatrain.
Fethî, with five koşmas in the Merzifon Cönkü: a local poet who addressed the Merzifon beauty Gülfadik, the view that he compiled the cönk, and his namesakes.
Gedâyî, with two koşmas in the Merzifon Cönkü: the case for Tokatlı Gedâî, apprentice of Erzurumlu Emrah, his link with Amasya and the opening quatrains.
Bezmî, with a müseddes and a koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: the case for Âşık Bezmî of Çankırı, the Bezmîs of Merzifon and Amasya in Hüsameddin, and his poems.
Feyzî, represented by a single ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: his place in the manuscript, his slender link with Amasya and why his identity cannot be established.
Kul Hasan, the shepherd minstrel who by local accounts lived in Harız near Merzifon in the 18th-19th centuries: his stand against the kadı, his five lost children, his deyiş.
Sıdkî Baba, Bektashi poet who served the çelebis Feyzullah and Cemaleddin at Hacıbektaş and settled in Harız near Merzifon in 1894: his life, pen names and deyiş.
Biçare Mehmet, Alevi eren of Dağsaray who lost his sight at seven and took Kul Fakır as his guide: his life, the Gaziler Ovacığı circle and his disputed tie to Amasya.
Dervişoğlu Mehmet, Alevi-Bektashi minstrel born in Diphacı near Merzifon, wounded on the Eastern front and dead in Ankara in 1915: his life, circle and five deyiş.
Âşık Dursun's name appears in the lists of Gaziler Ovacığı minstrels by Yücel and by Özer and Topal; no other record of his life or poems has been found.
Âşık Engunî's name appears in the list of Amasya minstrels in the book Dünden Bugüne Gümüşhacıköy; no other record of his life or poems has been found.
Âşık Musa Aslan, born in Ardahan, trained at the Hacıbektaş lodge and settled in Merzifon in 1925: his life, his circle and nine songs in the TRT repertoire.
Âşık Deli, represented by one koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: the record of a minstrel named in no other source, the pen name Deli, Merzifon as a halt for minstrels.
Three ghazals by Bâkî, the great poet of Süleyman's age, in the Merzifon Cönkü: his life and divan, the limits of his link with Amasya and his Amasya namesake.
Rızâ, represented by one ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü calling the Sufi to the dhikr circle: its lodge-poetry tone, its repetition in the article and poets of the same name.
Zahmî, represented by a müseddes on the mourning of Muharram in the Merzifon Cönkü: the Karbala elegy, its repetition in the article and poets of the same pen name.
Mısrî, represented by one ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: the meaning of the pen name, poets who shared it, the Niyâzî-i Mısrî possibility and an identity still unresolved.
Berkî, represented by one semâî in the Merzifon Cönkü and read with a question mark: the Amasya poet Berkî Hasan Çelebi and the unresolved question of identity.
Serbesî, known only from one divânî in the Merzifon Cönkü: the single record of a poet named in no other source, the question of identity and a poem on Jacob and Joseph.
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