His collection of poems, Only Dirt Laughs was published by al-Farabi in Beirut in 2009. He recently finished another poetry book. He published poems in several Iraqi and Arab newspapers, including Akhbar Aladab (Egypt), Al Ettihad (UAE), Annahar, Assafir, and Al Ghawoun (Lebanon). He co-founded the Iraqi Poetry House and presided over its administrative committee in its second cycle (2013-2016). Al-Saray is also editor-in-chief of the House’s quarterly magazine Bayt. In 2015, he was chosen General Coordinator of the Iraq Cultural Policy Taskforce. His poems were translated into English, Italian, and Polish. His poem "Nation with a Grey Shadow" was chosen best poem in the 2009 Castillo Di Duino competition in Italy.