Kate Briggs’s This Little Art and Daniel Hahn’s Catching Fire will serve as the basis for, and backbone to, this presentation on my translation of Thomas McGrath’s long poem. I chose friendship and friendliness as the threads running through the first part of this talk, focusing on the relational aspects of (this) translation. I will then move on to the nuts and bolts of the ‘exercise’: the preparation for it, the technolects involved, the pleasures found in making a copy of this text in a different language, and the post-partum regrets. “[W]hat I am seeking, Hahn writes, is fidelity to what I imagine to be the source text’s effect.” A bilingual reading of two passages by the undoubtedly bilingual audience might be a friendly opportunity to discuss the inevitable distance that remains between expectations and outcomes.