A Child’s Book of Particles contains two extracts from John Connell’s Kwan-Yin Lake Lectures, which were written and recorded documents attached to the series of installations titled The Construction of Kwan-Yin Lake and The Kwan-Yin Lake Pavillion which appeared from 1984-1991.
John Connell's work has been published in Granta's New Irish Writing issue. His memoir, The Farmer's Son, was a #1 bestseller in Ireland. He lives on his family farm, Birchview, in County Longford, Ireland