Scott Tyrrell, a Newcastle-based stand up poet, is currently both the BBC Poetry Slam Champion and the UK Anti-Slam Champion. Scott has been writing and performing poetry and comedy since the turn of the century. An award-winning comedian as well as a multi-slam-winning poet, he has performed his work around the UK and Europe and at many festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, Prague Fringe, WOMAD, Larmer Tree and Glastonbury, where he was poetry blogger in residence in 2015. He is author of two collections of poetry, most recently, the warmly received Grown Up published by Red Squirrel Press.