 Not all critics have been hostile to Kay 's poetry : reviewing a concert by the London Sinfonietta , Nicholas Williams refers to her " arresting text " . Whether positive or negative , the music critics only assessed part of Kay 's original work . In considering the original television version of Twice , the literary critic Laura Severin , praised the contrasted voices and the use of repetition as an adaptation to a medium where listeners would be less attentive to the words than if they were attending a conventional poetry reading . She also saw Kay 's portrayal of Rossiter as one that avoided both a conventional masculine representation of her as a ruthless murderer and an overly simplistic feminist one of her as a passive victim . 
