Complex sentence: John Cooper Clarke (born January 25,1949) is an English performance poet from Salford, Greater Manchester; he is often described as a punk poet, having initially achieved recognition in the late 1970s during the flourishing punk movement.
Split into simpler sentences: John Cooper Clarke (born January 25,1949) is an English performance poet from Salford, Greater Manchester. Clarke is often described as a punk poet, having initially achieved recognition in the late 1970s during the flourishing punk movement.