Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Please see: John Newton John Newton is a New Zealand poet, novelist, literary critic and musician. His poetry appears in several major New Zealand anthologies, he has written books about literary history and art, and his first novel was published in October 2020. He was the 2020 Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago.Tales from the Angler's Eldorado (1985) Lives of the Poets (2010) Family Songbook (2013) The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem Commune (2009) Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908–1945 (2017) Llew Summers: Body and Soul (2020) Escape Path Lighting (2020)