Donald Beviss Kerr (27 June 1919 – 15 December 1942) was a South Australian poet, a founder of the magazine Angry Penguins.
He was a grandson of Donald Alexander Kerr (1859 – 5 July 1919), at one time headmaster of Pulteney Grammar School.
[2] He was editor of the university graduates' annual magazine Phoenix in 1939, and when its funding was withdrawn, founded the literary magazine Angry Penguins,[a] one of its four original contributors, with (according to Professor Charles Jury) Max Harris, Paul Pfeiffer and Geoffrey Dutton.
[1] Kerr enlisted in the RAAF in 1939 and was called up in December 1940, serving as navigator on supply flights.
[3] He was killed when his plane was shot down[4] over Soputa airstrip, near Buna, Papua New Guinea.