Paul Stubbs is the author of various poetry collections and books of poetical and philosophical essays. A selection of poems translated into French was published by Hochroth-Paris in 2019, and Une anatomie de l'icône was released in December 2022 as a bilingual book. His poems and essays have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The Wolf, The Poetry Review, The Shop, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Poetry Salzburg, Agenda, Caesura, The Bitter Oleander, The High Window, and various French literary magazines such as Les Carnets d’Eucharis, Nunc, Temporel, and Poésie / première. He has also reviewed for different publications (Agenda, Poetry Wales, The Wolf, 3:AM magazine, Poetry Nottingham…). Stubbs has also written a play, The Messiah, and English versions of two classical Greek plays, Euripides’ The Bacchae and Aeschylus’ Prometheus Unbound.

With French translator Blandine Longre, he has translated texts by Victor Segalen (The Double Rimbaud, published in 2022), Jos Roy, Pierre Cendors, and Ernest Delahaye among others. He has been invited to read at the National Poetry Library, at Oxford University, at the Seamus Heaney Centre, at Kings Lynn Festival, and at various venues in New York and Paris. He also wrote the introductions of various books and has co-edited the bilingual literary magazine The Black Herald.

He received awards for his writing from the Society of Authors and Arts Council East; his latest poetry collection, The Lost Songs of Gravity, has received a substantial grant from the Society of Authors.