Talking to Stanley on the Telephone by Michael Schmidt Neil Powell The commission is given to

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

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

not to mention its health-giving properties

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

Infused with the totality of nature and familial love

Talking to Stanley on the Telephone by Michael Schmidt Neil Powell The commission is given toTalking 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