Samples

'It would not suit this voice for a meteor bombardment'
to be an endless cosmic dance between exploding partners
or for a black hole to be a simple doorway
or a smudge you might remove from your mirror;'
[ V15, Kevin Brophy, Deeply Speaking ]

'The baby birds looked old enough to have known something of the world - light and darkness and hunger and perhaps nausea - but they had not known flight.'
[V11, Tai McQueen, Pictures of Birds and Sky]

'Now we picnic under the sun's bright glare
'au pays de la Somme' as road signs say;
poppies and roses fill the summer air.'
[ V12, Katherine Gallagher, Villanelle ]

'The knife fell deep into one of his eyes, where the steel would remain. He stood upright to pluck the metal from its wound, and for a second his face held all the dignity and noble grace of unicorns.'
[ V16, Jason DeBoer, Here Swims A Most Majestic Vision ]

'I sat at this same table once with
your sister, I told the kid
She put a hat pin through her cheek
while we waited to order'
[ V02, Chris Quigley, Famous People Mistakenly Believing They Were In Melbourne ]

'White took a few puffs and leaned back. He looked at the white marbles from a distance. From here, the shapes formed by the lines of colours took on a life of their own.'
[ V09, Julie Constable, Chinese Chequers ]

'Ballif [officiously]:
This man stands accus'd, I confide
Of outrageous Poeticide;
He speaks no verse, though tongue he's got;
A poet, he claims, he is not.'
[ V20, Jeremy Davies, Poeticide ]