Richard Appleton
Australian poet and raconteur / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Australian writer. For Richard Appleton, Master of Selwyn College 1909–1928, see Richard Appleton (academic).
Richard Appleton (17 January 1932 – 27 April 2005) was an Australian poet, raconteur and editor who became editor-in-chief of the Australian Encyclopaedia and, in 1987, was co-editor with Alex Galloway of the posthumous Lex Banning poetry collection There Was a Crooked Man. He was a long-time associate of the Sydney Push, of which his memoirs were published posthumously in 2009.[1] He helped create The Pluralist, a journal of dissident thought.[2]