It was on October 17, 2015, that Gui Minhai was abducted and placed in Chinese custody. According to the judgment on February 24, he is to serve ten years in prison for having provided foreign power with intelligence. At the same time, many believe that his actual crime probably consists in publishing regime-critical books.

The poems have been published before, but her daughter Angela Gui believes that the father wants them published in book form as well. The first time she read the poems was in 2017.

- They contain some information about how the kidnapping itself went and how he experienced his detention and the time spent in detention which was quite difficult to read, she says.

At the same time, the poems have been a way for her to keep in touch with her father, who disappeared when she was still quite young.

- I have learned that there is a way to get to know someone as a person on a deeper plane, although it is not possible to meet.

"Dad feels Swedish"

The poems are full of flashes to Sweden. They are about moose, potatoes, Lucia and Svensson:

"Svensson, your sun still shines as strong, Is your heart still as big as the sea, Do you still remember the child who left home".

- Many people talk about the Svensson life as something boring and commonplace but for many it is a huge privilege. It is not boring, it is stable and secure and it is really getting ruined, says Angela Gui.

Gui Minhai has had Swedish citizenship since 1992, but according to the judgment on February 24, Minhai himself has applied for Chinese citizenship which according to China means that he is no longer Sweden's concern.

- It shines through the poems very strongly that my dad feels Swedish and that Sweden is the home he longs for. So in the light of the poems, one can definitely question the Chinese authorities' message that my dad should have chosen to resign his Swedish citizenship.

"A pretty funny person"

Yet it is not the serious poems that Angela Gui herself appreciates most, but the one about an egg:

"Where it lies at its extreme next to the red-hot frying pan, It has only one humble desire, To turn into a really good omelette."

"It doesn't always shine through when we talk about him, but he's a pretty funny person," says Angela Gui.