Joyce wrote several occasional poems, probably the most famous of which are ‘The Holy Office,’ and ‘Gas from a Burner.’ ‘The Holy Office’ was written in August 1904 and lampoons figures in the Dublin literary scene of the time, including WB Yeats, JM Synge, Padraic Colum, William Magee, George Russell and others. Joyce had the poem printed in Pola and sent it to his brother in Dublin to distribute. ‘Gas from a Burner’ was begun in the railway station at Flushing in Holland in September 1912 as Joyce returned from Dublin to Trieste after the pages of his book Dubliners had been destroyed by the printer. It was printed in Trieste and sent back to Dublin for distribution.
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