Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Self-education
Chapter 2: Concrete mothers
Chapter 3: Carving wood, sculpting movement
Chapter 4: Built to be shared: McCormacks Bay
Chapter 5: Icons and angels
Chapter 6: To the end of love
Epilogue
Notes
Chronology
List of works illustrated
Acknowledgements
Index

About the Author

John Newton was Llew Summers’ close friend during the last two years of the sculptor’s life. A poet, critic and cultural historian, his earlier books include ‘The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem Commune’ (VUP, 2009), and ‘Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908–1945’ (VUP, 2017). He is the 2020 Robert Burns Fellow.