About Wish

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Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (she/her), BFA, is a Singapore-based (formerly from Melbourne, Australia) BIPOC poet who continually strives to inspire her readers through poems that heal and instill hope. Throughout her 20s, she has dealt with various challenges head-on, and poetry is what has imparted her with the strength she needed to push forward. With the power of the written word, she also helps people see life through a different lens and expresses her innermost self.

Outside of writing poems, Wish works as an innovationist and olive oil producer with her husband. In addition to her passion for poetry and technology, she spends her time reading, gardening, farming, constantly changing hairstyles, and traveling. During her travels, she even had the rare opportunity to be a line cook for a 1-star Michelin chef in the beautiful Siena, Tuscany, Italy. She adores her 2 cats, little brother, food, wine, and gin collection.

Photography by Luke Peacocke ©2021

 FAQs

  • My legal name is one of the most common American names that emerged in the early 80s. There are usually 2-4 in my class growing up. I don't connect with it so when I was 13, a freshman in high school, I started listing down words from books I read, and I have chosen Wish to use for a Secret Santa alias in class. It stuck with me ever since.

  • It was a happy accident. I never planned to share my poems with the world, but I went through a rough patch and realized to go back to my artistic core. I have all these poems to compile, and they evolved, making it professionally. I concluded that I should give it a try, and here we are.

  • I usually start with a phrase that pops into my head, which prompts what I should write. I just groove along with it.

  • I do, honestly. My imagination is vast, and my mind runs way too fast. I'm also a Piscean, the dreamer. So, when I write, I just internalize it as if they are all happening to me at the time of writing. I experienced love in many different aspects too, and they partly reflect my perspectives within the poems.

  • There is extensive accessibility to creative media nowadays. I do watch many random movies, documentaries, and TV shows, plus reading random books, blogs, and graphic novels. I just select something and expect nothing, and then they surprise me. I absorb these plots' complexities and ingest my interpretations into the poems that you read in my collection.

  • When I collated all my poems, I grouped them into themes. This time around, I edited out the lyrics that are irrelevant to the narrative that I want to reveal in this book such as nature, death, lifestyle, travel, and beings.

  • Absolutely! That's the fun part.

  • I'd like to think of myself as a visionary, and I value individuality. I write to convey my own opinion and perspectives about something. Even though I have advertising and marketing backgrounds, I deliver my genuine self with my work. You'd only hope that every reader can connect with one of my poems.

  • The most challenging is to form the most precise words and phrases to describe what I see in my head.

  • When they continually compare themselves to other authors and try too hard to sound like one of the existing popular books out there. One should just write where your passion is and start from there.