Court of Waters

Hilmi Yavuz makes the following evaluation about İbrahim Halil Baran's poem: “İbrahim Halil Baran builds his poem with frightening images. Frightening, yes, because it depicts an imaginary Apocalypse. The apocalypse of a poet who "remained a man of plunder" and "beat his soul with a diamond wound"... As the name of the Council of Waters suggests, this is an Apocalypse that will come with the Flood: overflowing with "water and water", almost every verse A poem that transforms into a Flood with water...
This Apocalypse or Flood informs us that we are no longer in the “time of spirits and flowers.” The poet is on Noah's ark with "the smell of scorpions in his bed" and his "youth sleeping between stones and roses". He is a poet who "does not swear allegiance" to the Flood. And the ship sails towards a Blake universe where even the "adopted word" is not enough, correcting a sea that "had anchored in the wrong city"... 
İbrahim Halil Baran; In the poem, a captain of the Flood..."
Mehmet H. Doğan says the following about “The Council of Waters”: “For many years now, the footsteps of a new poem with its common language, words and atmosphere have been coming from the “east”. I found the same voice in the poetry of a young poet like İbrahim Halil Baran: the one who nurses pain, not hope; where "blood instead of milk" flows from the lover's breasts; that angels “drank dirty water from jugs”; A poem that is roasted within itself and does not smile. But it still calls for hope and love in its “gazelle vitality”.”