He began his multi-genre writing career in 2002/3.  His first ever publication in 2004 was a short story, ‘Benches’, published in the anthology, Transit Beirut (Saqi Books, 2004).  In 2005, in the wake of his first MA, his first scholarly paper was published, on George Eliot.  And then, having started to write poetry with serious intent from the summer of 2006, he was soon very fortunately published in some of the UK’s most prestigious poetry or more broadly literary journals, such as: Poetry Review, PN Review, The Reader Magazine, The Warwick Review, Stand, Banipal, Agenda, The Wolf, among many others.  His poetry since those early days and efforts has also appeared to date in venues such as: (T&F) New Writing, New Humanist, Kenyon Review and New England Review.  He has five full collections of poetry published, My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint, The Square Root of Beirut, To The Middle of Love, But It Was an Important Failure, Morning Lit: Portals After Alia (Cinnamon Press, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2020, 2022).  His next poetry collection, For Echo is due for publication in Spring 2024, with Cinnamon Press again.  Since 2012, roughly, he has written and had published tens and tens of articles and essays, ranging from peer-reviewed scholarly papers, to literary criticism, to literary journalism (reviewing) and other kinds of belles lettres.  Much of his best critical writing was collated in his, To My Mind Or Kinbotes, published by Whisk(e)y Tit Books in 2021.  In 2020 Anthem Press published his single-author study: Reading Fiona Sampson: A Study in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.  Two of his published novellas, out of Beirut and then out of Dubai, are, Via Negativa: A Parable of Exile (Liquorice Fish Books, 2016), and Minutes from the Miracle City (Fairlight Books, 2019).  He has published much short fiction and creative nonfiction, too, some prize-winning; and a collection of most of his best short-form creative or directly imaginative prose, published between 2004 and 2022 is collated in Y Knots: Short Fictions (Liquorice Fish Books, Oct. 2023).  Finally, his book of Lebanese verse narratives, Cedar: Scenes from Lebanese Life, was published with Northside House in 2023.

The vocation of writing, across disciplines and genres, is more than just a wish or desire for him; he writes from a deep-bowelled need to deploy the English language under the various disciplines of form.