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]
- ^ Appleton R Appo: Recollections of a member of the Sydney Push Darlington Press, Sydney, 2009. ISBN 9781921364099
- ^ Collingwood, Lyn Reports of his death were premature, till now Obituary in Sydney Morning Herald 31 May 2005 (Accessed 22 April 2010)