Where he turns for his source material, and with what seasoning he writes, are explained in this appraisal of his work by JOHN METCALF, dramatic critic of the London Sunday Times.

John Metcalf is an unrepentant elitist ... Matt Cohen’s novels are “inept” and “too bloody boring” to even contemplate rereading. Robert Kroetsch was a “celebrated and laborious postmodernist.” Such ...