Karl Henrik Edlund: Eden Paul Rosenius Either you like football or

Either you like football or not

but nothing can erase its history

Honourable mention by the jury for Swedish Book Art 2005 at the National Library of Sweden

and as I walked around in the city

Well some of us do

Karl Henrik Edlund: Eden Paul Rosenius Either you like football orFrom the veranda I watch the horned grebe with its bright red eyes and yellow orange tufts diving rapidly into the water. I wait and wait for it to reappear, often where I least expect it. Sea surrounds the island, one of more than 6,700 in the land archipelago. The islands solid bedrock with striations, veins and crevices, shaped by time. The place was once rugged; full of scraggy pines, junipers and tall, wild grass. Grandfather cleared and planted