Elizabeth Wassell Montague
@elizabethwm.bsky.social
Novelist & short story writer; occasional journalist; Europhile; cinephile; New York-born Irish citizen residing in France; wife of John Montague
Before bath. After bath.
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Before bath. After bath.
It’s hot out there under the Mediterranean sun but she’s a chihuahua.
July 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s hot out there under the Mediterranean sun but she’s a chihuahua.
Sad this evening. It’s politics I think. At times I read replies to perfectly clear posts and these replies are thickets of confusion, fragmented, paranoid, full of villainies as Hamlet says. Especially on the right I must say. The absence of ethics & love of cruelty get me down.
July 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Sad this evening. It’s politics I think. At times I read replies to perfectly clear posts and these replies are thickets of confusion, fragmented, paranoid, full of villainies as Hamlet says. Especially on the right I must say. The absence of ethics & love of cruelty get me down.
I have only just now realised she looks very like Stitch.
June 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I have only just now realised she looks very like Stitch.
My ballerina
May 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My ballerina
My ballerina
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My ballerina
Good morning. Balmy enough to forego our overcoats.
March 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Good morning. Balmy enough to forego our overcoats.
What a tribute.
March 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
What a tribute.
The plaque in honour of my great Irish poet husband, unveiled on St Patrick’s Day in Nice: a radiant morning after a week of squally rain.
March 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The plaque in honour of my great Irish poet husband, unveiled on St Patrick’s Day in Nice: a radiant morning after a week of squally rain.
Today is John Montague’s birthday. He was (is and always will be) a great poet. And my husband and sweetheart.
February 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Today is John Montague’s birthday. He was (is and always will be) a great poet. And my husband and sweetheart.
I’ve ordered my favourite meal of chicken and carrots but it’s slow in coming.
February 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I’ve ordered my favourite meal of chicken and carrots but it’s slow in coming.
Did you know ‘La Cote d’Azur’ refers not to the sea but the sky? The purity & depth of this blue! Chilly & bright today.
February 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Did you know ‘La Cote d’Azur’ refers not to the sea but the sky? The purity & depth of this blue! Chilly & bright today.
Sophie’s birthday! (Also James Joyce’s)
February 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Sophie’s birthday! (Also James Joyce’s)
Inspired by her ears, the cook made meringues.
January 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Inspired by her ears, the cook made meringues.
The elegance! The solemnity! The ears!
January 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The elegance! The solemnity! The ears!
2011. John, Catholic, and Michael, Protestant, would not have been friends in their day, in the North, but for poetry.
January 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
2011. John, Catholic, and Michael, Protestant, would not have been friends in their day, in the North, but for poetry.
John Montague and Michael Longley in Belfast some years ago
January 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
John Montague and Michael Longley in Belfast some years ago
Contemplating the next chapter
January 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Contemplating the next chapter
Despite everything (& nearly everything is pretty sombre just now) is it a lovely luminous morning in Nice? Yes! Yes!
January 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Despite everything (& nearly everything is pretty sombre just now) is it a lovely luminous morning in Nice? Yes! Yes!
A croissant for breakfast
December 28, 2024 at 10:48 AM
A croissant for breakfast
Christmas completed. Enforced frantic jollity of New Year still to come. Meantime I will repose in my burrow
December 28, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Christmas completed. Enforced frantic jollity of New Year still to come. Meantime I will repose in my burrow
Christmas in Perpignan with Hugo & the ever-pampered Sophie. Perp a marvellous mingling of French & Catalan. Streets with lovely literary names. And the wine!
December 26, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Christmas in Perpignan with Hugo & the ever-pampered Sophie. Perp a marvellous mingling of French & Catalan. Streets with lovely literary names. And the wine!
Proud but also humbled
December 12, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Proud but also humbled
John Montague, my great poet husband, died on this day in 2016. He wrote magnificent verse, but also had the world’s most glimmering smile. He is my heart. And his bio is out! A Poet’s Life by Adrian Frazier. Lilliput Press.
December 10, 2024 at 11:14 AM
John Montague, my great poet husband, died on this day in 2016. He wrote magnificent verse, but also had the world’s most glimmering smile. He is my heart. And his bio is out! A Poet’s Life by Adrian Frazier. Lilliput Press.