Poetic Obituaries: [John] Rety was also poetry editor

of the Morning Star, where his "Well Versed" column put on 200 readers every Thursday, a significant boost for a paper with a circulation of 10,000. Its success owed much to the eclectic choice, drawing on some ordinary readers but also established London poets as well as Robert Burns and 19th-century German writers. The paper's editor explained that Rety was an out-of-house quality controller chosen to ensure that the Morning Star did not fall into the trap of political correctness by publishing "worthy rhetoric".

from The Daily Telegraph: John Rety

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