John Gray (poet) French, German, Latin, music and art. In 1882 he passed the Civil Service exams and, five years later, the University of London matriculation exams. He joined the Foreign Office where he became a librarian. Gray is best known today as an aesthetic poet of the 1890s and as a friend of Ernest Dowson, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. He was also a talented translator, bringing works by the French Symbolists Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Jules Laforgue and Arthur Rimbaud into English, often for the first time. He is purported to be the inspiration behind the title character in Wilde's "The
Poet in the City composer Martin Suckling and scientists to create new work inspired by the PETMEM (Piezoelectronic Transduction Memory Device) technology, which premiered on 15 October 2017 as part of BBC Radio 3's Memory Weekender at the Wellcome Collection, and was then performed to a live audience at Kings Place in January 2018 as part of its Time Unwrapped season. In partnership with the Francis Crick Institute, Poet in the City worked with poet Sarah Howe and sound artist Chu-Li Shewring to create a piece around an exciting new development in exploring scientific patterns to learn more about the human biology. Launched in