SOURCE: "Stirring Your Tea is Only a Normal Activity if You Stop Doing it Relatively Quickly," in The London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 13, July 6, 1995, p. 19.

In the following excerpt, Redmond provides a favorable review of Jubilation, calling it an old-fashioned but well-crafted, precise, and intelligent book of poetry.

Charles Tomlinson's Jubilation is a very old-fashioned poetry book. His sense of the line, his diction and his subject-matter at times are reminiscent of the Georgians and, indeed, there are a couple of references to Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney. When he is not referring to a timeless landscape and noting the effects of the seasons, he is describing medieval buildings or people from another time. 'Durham in March,' for instance, which sees the landscape from a moving train, records the relics of a time before there were trains: a castle, a viaduct, 'a trinity of towers.'...