Gwendolyn also has a interest in the arts and the humanities. Gwendolyn Toynton also holds a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies and has a strong interest in all spiritual matters and philosophy. Gwendolyn's first major work, The 'Tantrik Tradition' is also scheduled for publication in 2013. Her most recent work is 'Mimir - Journal of North European Traditions'. Damon Zacharias Lycourinos, Numen Books, 2012). She also has an article in 'Occult Traditions' (ed. Gwendolyn has recently also returned to fictional work with her latest short story published in 'Mythos: The Myths and Tales of H. She has written for numerous periodicals, including 'New Dawn Magazine'. Her poetry is also featured in the 'New Zealand Collection of Poetry and Prose 2002'.
Gwendolyn Toynton (real name Gwendolyn Taunton) was the recipient of the Ashton Wylie Award for Literary Excellence in 2009 for her first book, 'Primordial Traditions Compendium', which featured a collection of articles from the periodical Primordial Traditions which ran from 2005-2010.
Melpomene will haunt the reader with a dark and unearthly beauty that is both forbidden and forlorn. Containing works both old and new, Melpomene offers a prime selection of works on the melancholic side of existence, the transformational beauty of the esoteric, occult secrets hidden in verse, sorrow, doom and the inevitable grasp of death. Alexander Carle, Bill Noble, Marg Howlet, Ivor Steven and Gene Banyard. Liddell, James WF Roberts, Christopher Pankhurst, H. Authors in this volume include Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Taunton, Azsacra Zarathustra, Math Jones, Bernardo Sena, J. Each section contains both new and classic literature dealing with these themes. Melpomene is broken into four sections: Liber Veneficium (Book of Magic), Liber Maeroris (Book of Sorrow), Liber Fatum (Book of Fate), and Liber Mortuorum (Book of Death). The central theme of the anthology is the beauty found in sorrow and the darker sides of human nature, drawing on literary traditions such as the 'Damned Poets', the Decadent Movement, Symbolism/Surrealism and the Fin de si cle. Melpomene is a collection of poetry, prose and short fiction named after the Greek Muse of Tragedy.
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