Five American Poets (1963)

Edited by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn and published in 1963 by Faber and Faber, this collection is largely credited with introducing Hyam Plutzik's work to British readers, though one of his poems had been included by Sylvia Plath in her 1961 anthology American Poetry Now. The other four authors represented in Five American Poets were Edgar Bowers, Howard Nemerov, Louis Simpson, and William Stafford.

After he became Poet Laureate in 1984, Hughes offered this tribute: “Hyam Plutzik’s poems have haunted me for twenty-five years. And they seem even more alive and special now than they did when I first found them. ... The best of his work seems to me marvelously achieved, a sacred book.”