What’s so funny about poetry? Ask our next Heard Word Featured Guest. Rob Casey. He specialises in penning verses packed with humour and absurdity.
That’s Monday the 16th of February 2026 from 5-7pm GMT on Zoom.
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A bit more about our Featured Guest:
Rob is a stand-up poet, writer, and performer, who has worked across a number of different forms and genres.
His main specialism is in poetry, especially comedic performance poetry, for which he has won various slam events, including the Anti-Slam (where the worst poet wins), and was appointed as the ‘Bard of Exeter’ in 2016. Following this, he was commissioned by the BBC to write the poem for Devon as part of National Poetry Day, and spent seven years as the official club poet for Exeter City FC, writing an original piece for every home game across the period (which he thinks is a world record). He has also produced work for a number of different organisations, including ITV, the FA, the South West Coastal Path, West Dorset Wilding, and other commissions.
As a poet, he has hosted multiple events, having worked with Apples and Snakes, the UK’s leading spoken word trailblazers. He is also a founder of ‘Apothecary’, an open mic night in Bridport, Dorset, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Rob has additional experience as a sports journalist, as well as working in film as a writer and performer, with some dabbling in producing and directing.
Currently, he is focusing on fiction, working on his third novella within the last year, exploring and experimenting with under-utilised perspectives.