Bibliographic record
Abstract
I should declare my hand at the beginning: I first met Kevin Roberts almost 50 years ago at a country high school in the Riverland of South Australia when I was 14 and he in his first teaching position. His appearance was shortly followed by the arrival of a young Greek female teacher. It is fair to say both parties made an impression.In a poem, 'New Australian' Roberts recalls the 'passionate black purple blood-red' of full skirts, the eye shadow, 'the long black hair in a mane', of the girl he was to marry, despite opposition from 'My Tusmore aunt [who] told me we'd have black babies' and her (Maria's) Ikarian father. They are still together, and whatever misgivings both sides of the cultural divide might have held seem to have been defused by the couple's marriage in a third-party country:... the first day it snowedin Canada after our weddingwe held up our tonguesto the unique and christening flakes. (167)Roberts' subsequent absence from Australia since has not amounted to exile. He has been back often; one section of this collection, devoted to poems from his 'Red Centre Collection', reveals his ongoing fascination with the Outback:The night before I leave UluruI build a campfire, dry gumspurts into flame, the spidersscatter like my convictions (126)Other poems reflect the duality of nationality he has taken on. When he suggests that negotiating the 'deadhead' - the submerged and dangerous log of Canadian waterways -... is likewalking in thick grassin snake countrywatching 20 feet aheadfor the thing to rear upand strike (91)it is if as he is recognising that the unknown, menacing or indifferent forces which are never far from his poetry, respect no frontiers.Elsewhere, 'New Poems' contain samples like 'Aussie Rules 1' (whose evocations of the behaviour of a ball which 'gambols abrupt as fate' might be superficially puzzling to his North American readers). But it is succeeded in 'Aussie Rules 2' by the link between the ball's fickleness and the loss suffered by his widowed father:how he loved the game hatedthe unpredictable pointof the ball its erratic dipspurt and jump knewsomehow it was linked to hermy mother's amazing and pointlessdisappearance (159)Some of Roberts' best poems date from his career as a commercial sea fisherman in Canada. 'The Fish Come in Dancing' captures the initial excitement as a school of fish are taken on the line:iridescentdark torpedoesflurry of white silversprayas they jumpsucceeded by a kind of revulsion as 'blood and guts crawls / into every crack' until, as the fish... flop flat anddull rainbows on their sidesfadehe confesses:it gets harder to lovethe thingsyou kill. (86-7)Nevertheless, his fascination (or addiction, as anyone who has ever fished can understand) remains:sitting cramped in the drifting boatice still on in the shadeeyes brightfor the quick flash of the rod's tipoiled spurt of the reel (13)As always in his poems, though, Roberts goes deeper. From the same collection he describes a rainbow trout:tricked and hookedthey die like ballet dancersleap and turnsinuous as oilgraceful as cloudschoreography by PanI could not do it that way (15)The last line of the poem could almost anticipate the selection from 'Cobalt 3', which chronicles Roberts' battle with cancer that probably should have killed him. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".