Arts Lounge Literary magazine in partnership with the Embassy of France in Nigeria and Cookinggpot Publishing is thrilled to announce the shortlisted poems for The Green we Left Behind Project. We had received 304 entries, which we narrowed down to 15 poems for the long-list and 6 poems for the shortlist.

The shortlisted poems are:

1) That Home is not Immune to Chaos But we are Saviours by Pacella Chukuma-Eke

2) War Climate by Iheoma Uzomba

3) Ecocide: Just Another Way to Commit Suicide by Abdulazeez Shomade

4) Sorrows, Prayers, Mother Earth by Nwokoibem MacAnthony Uzoma

5) Poetic Edda by Ojo Taiye

6) Untitled Gen Z Poem about all the Beautiful Places Growing into Cracks  by Abdulrazaq Salihu

Shortlisted poets will participate in a poetry slam at the French Institute in Nigeria, Abuja, on the 9th of June, in celebration of 2023 world environmental day.