Talking to Stanley on the Telephone by Michael Schmidt Neil Powell draws on an intimately known

draws on an intimately known landscape as witness to solitude and shared lives

His high-definition observation is informed by an ecologist’s eye

Angela Livingstone studied Russian and German at Cambridge

said “Anderson's honesty will take your breath away

The commission is given to the chief partner in a successful Cardiff architectural firm –a man supremely sure of himself

Talking to Stanley on the Telephone by Michael Schmidt Neil Powell draws on an intimately knownTalking to Stanley on the Telephone rummages through the desires, frustrations and waning faculties of old age. The stories it tells add up to a vivacious celebration of life spans and the darkening comedy of growing old. Michael Schmidt is the author of several books of poetry. His Selected Poems (Smith Doorstop) was a PBS Special Commendation. He has written Lives of the Poets, The Ancient Poets and The Novel: a Biography, and he has produced