Shards of silver / [compiled by] Paul Thompson.

Subject, source, symbol / Paul Thompson -- Picture lock / Anna Jackson -- Album / Jenny Bornholdt -- Summer alarm / Geoff Cochrane -- Pioneer woman with ferrets / Ruth Dallas -- The explorer / Mike Eager -- Advice from a photographer / Riemke Ensing -- Moeraki Boulders, 1989 / Rangi Faith -- The second row / Glenda Fawkes -- A photograph of Bradshaw Cove / Anne French -- Samoa, 1900 / Bernard Gadd -- I am a camera / David Gregory -- Butterfly house, Melbourne / Bernadette Hall -- Writing home / Dinah Hawken -- A photograph of the poet / David Howard -- The first tribute / Kevin Ireland -- Old photos / Michael Jackson -- "the square is full of people" / Jill Jones -- A fading photograph / Fiona Kidman -- Colour separation / Koenraad Kuiper -- Madeleine / Julie Leibrich -- Elegy II / Alan Loney -- Mode / Judith Lonie -- The room / Mary Macpherson -- Last sonnet / Bill Manhire -- Zoom / Cilla McQueen -- Te Araroa / Harvey McQueen -- In camera... / Mike Minehan -- Photographs of old poets / Michael Morrissey -- Instamatic / Chris Orsman -- Voyeur / Mike Pirie -- Magic gloves / Vivienne Plumb -- The old house burns / Fiona Farrell Poole -- Catching up with family / Sarah Quigley -- To the tin trunk of images / Ian Wedde -- Matrimonial / Albert Wendt -- The bride stripped bare / Virginia Were -- One hundred pounds / Alison Wong -- Fishshopping / Sonja Yelich.

Includes poems and two essays by various contributors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 13).