Omar Sabbagh

Omar Sabbagh is a widely published poet, writer and critic.  His first collection and his fourth collection are, respectively: My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint and To The Middle of Love (Cinnamon Press, 2010/17).  His 5^th collection, But It Was An Important Failure, was published with Cinnamon Press near the start of 2020.

His Beirut novella, Via Negativa: A Parable of Exile, was published with Liquorice Fish Books in March 2016; and he has published much short fiction, some of it prize-winning.  A study of the oeuvre of Professor Fiona Sampson, Reading Fiona Sampson: A Study in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, was published with Anthem Press in July 2020.  His Dubai novella, Minutes from the Miracle City was published with Fairlight Books in July 2019.

He has published scholarly essays on George Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, G.K. Chesterton, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Joseph Conrad, Lytton Strachey, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Hilaire Belloc, George Steiner, and others; as well as on many contemporary poets.

Many of these works are collated in, To My Mind Or Kinbotes: Essays on Literature, published with Whisk(e)y Tit in January 2021.  His Morning Lit: Portals After Alia, is due to be published in March 2022 with Cinnamon Press.  He holds a BA in PPE from Oxford; three MA’s, all from the University of London, in English Literature, Creative Writing and Philosophy; and a PhD in English Literature from KCL.  He was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the American University of Beirut (AUB), from 2011-2013.  Presently, he teaches at the American University in Dubai (AUD), where he is Associate Professor of English.