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If it is the job of a poet to reveal the truth, Lishai Peel, Hamilton’s inaugural “Poet in Place,” or official city poet, has succeeded in spades.

More than a year into her two-year term, her position was put on trial, first in the media and then by city council.

The people’s poet was ridiculed in the local newspaper by a sports and politics columnist saying, for example, the “rhymer in residence” should “rhyme something