Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature
Mark Edwards
Lyric by Bob Dylan
Third revised edition
Includes a new essay by Tim Smit
Each line of Bob Dylan’s poetic masterpiece, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, is illustrated by leading photographers in this startlingly original book. Hard Rain brings alive our global problems and shows how they are all connected by cause and effect. Poverty, the wasteful use of resources, pollution, the loss of habitats and species, and the summation of our problems, climate change, are all understood by decision-makers but they typically continue to be addressed as separate issues. Hard Rain shows that we need to tackle all our problems together if we are to solve any one of them.
In this extraordinarily powerful book – moving, delicate, cryptic, violent by turns – Edwards and Dylan remind us of how much is at stake.
Gerry McCarthy, Sunday Times
This disturbing, powerfully moving work is a masterpiece that summons up the ghosts of our past and a vision of the future that is ours to change. Regret and optimism make strange bedfellows, but great artists have always known this.
Tim Smit, Chief Executive and co-founder, The Eden Project
This book inspires me to try and stand again. To know that others share this bleakest outlook brings a ray of hope. At first I thought that Dylan’s lines should not be illustrated. I was wrong.
Christy Moore
We need to give a damn, and here we can see, if we take a few minutes, why we should. This is the power of art.
Colin Tudge
