Although still in her early thirties, the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is today increasingly being regarded as one of the most important and liberating developments in modern Irish writing. Recently Prof. Seán Ó Tuama remarked that upon reading a poem of hers for the first time he knew that he "was reading a completely new voice and that something extraordinary was happening again in Irish literature...she has created a completely new world, a new feeling and consequently, a new style." The poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill ranges from the sensuous to the rhetorical. Hers is an unmistakably feminine voice, but one which speaks with a freedom and in a language which few writers have achieved. Her work draws on folklore, mythology and dreams to celebrate with an earthy mysticism all that is commonplace, all that is of flesh and alive. In her work, the terms modern and traditional become fused so that she does not so much make the old new as make the new traditional and therefore timeless.