The difficulty of our times has been (as it always has) a defining force for our generation’s evolvement, that we find ourselves up against constantly. As writers, poets and poppyseeds, we were asked to contemplate on the things around or inside of us that required our attention, maybe once in the past, in a surrounding present, or an undefined future. No matter the time, we are always within a challenging position when trying to figure out what it might be that demands our notice, and even so, it is merely a second step before the immense how to help, how to be there, how to affect for -it -them -us. And of course the first step: an itching request for something to change.

Poppyseeds Magazine & Collective initiated by Manuel Phil. Bischof & Artemis Xeniou , The Hague, 2024