(a) You are putting together an anthology with no central theme, no selection guidelines (with the possible exception of "we like it and they paid") and no editorial involvement except that of the authors (do it all yourself, we really can't be bothered).
(b) You have no genuine concept of your audience as you clearly have done little to no market research. Just putting together a product is insufficient. What distinguishes your product from the thousands of independent anthologies, e-zines and self-published works already out there?
(c ) £20 - £30 is a massive outlay for only vague "potential returns" when you're submitting (if I read it correctly) only one poem or possibly a couple. That's actually more than the entry fee for some of the major poetry prizes around the world, where the prize money is in the thousands. There is no way, even if this is a success as far as poetry goes, that the returns will be any greater than a couple of hundred quid -- and that is me being extremely optimistic.
You are asking people to pay to submit work with no quality guarantee and as far as I can tell, no real vision for the final product other than "exciting" and "varied". Packets of Skittles are exciting and varied. You could be very fortunate and end up with a range of enormously high quality poems that represent the most innovative and skilled of the avant garde -- but the likely outcome is an eclectic junk shop of a vanity publication. Sorry mate -- try the Dragon's Den, at least that way you'll get yourself on telly.
(b) You have no genuine concept of your audience as you clearly have done little to no market research. Just putting together a product is insufficient. What distinguishes your product from the thousands of independent anthologies, e-zines and self-published works already out there?
(c ) £20 - £30 is a massive outlay for only vague "potential returns" when you're submitting (if I read it correctly) only one poem or possibly a couple. That's actually more than the entry fee for some of the major poetry prizes around the world, where the prize money is in the thousands. There is no way, even if this is a success as far as poetry goes, that the returns will be any greater than a couple of hundred quid -- and that is me being extremely optimistic.
You are asking people to pay to submit work with no quality guarantee and as far as I can tell, no real vision for the final product other than "exciting" and "varied". Packets of Skittles are exciting and varied. You could be very fortunate and end up with a range of enormously high quality poems that represent the most innovative and skilled of the avant garde -- but the likely outcome is an eclectic junk shop of a vanity publication. Sorry mate -- try the Dragon's Den, at least that way you'll get yourself on telly.
It could be worse